On 5/2/12 9:56 PM, whoi.geo wrote:
Thanx Jammie,
I worked out a partial refund with the seller...I plan on making the
cartridge into an EEPROM by making a few changes to the circuit...
I have a 2nd cartridge I ordered coming from another source..so if
IT works it will be clear that the 1st cartridge is bad..
My feeling is that it is the cartridge...
thanx again for your response...
sos
--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" wrote:
>
> i would say bad cartridge even if it is nos
>
> get money back was most proberly broken before sent
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: whoi.geo
> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 7:48 PM
> Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] VFX-SD cartridge failure
>
>
>
> Hi1
>
> My first post...bought a used VFX-SD...(one of the later ones as the
> connection between the under-keyboard circuit boards is a 2-layer socket)everything works perfectly...however I had ordered a NOS Voice Crystal cartridge from a store in Florida, the case for the cartridge arrived broken, I plugged it in and the keyboard didn't recognize it
> contacted the seller...he had no VFX to test it on.
>
> I contacted the California guy, he said bad cartridge, bad cable,
> bad motherboard (not able to tell if this was in order of likelihood)
> I removed the cable and cleaned both sockets and the pins on the MB
> with gold deoxy...still no joy...
>
> Anybody ever had a bad cable for the cartridge?
>
> How about the MB being bad such that it doesn't recognize that a cartridge is installed?
>
> Your thoughts please...
>
> SOS
>