Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:23:59 -0000, Scott wrote
> My SD-1 has worked flawlessly since 1991 and toady it won't start.  
> Power on and the drive chirps twice and that's it.  If I hit enough 
> buttons I can get "8"s on the screen.  So, the question --- would a 
> dead battery alone cause this or is this a sympton of something bigger?

That's exactly what my SD did last summer. I tried it again today, but no activity. Please tell if you got it 
running. I think I had this problem 10 years ago and took it to service. I think they replaced the battery. 
Maybe they also gave it an over all service (the spade lugs mentioned here etc). But I don't think I can 
find any service in Finland anymore. I'm going to do that myself. Replacing the battery shouldn't be that 
hard. Anyone done that? One must obviously solder it from same side that the pins go through the 
board.

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Johan Halm\ufffdn