Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

I stick a disk in and hit disk then format and no lights turned on.
Sounds like a power supply issue eh? I hope it isn't more serious. My
multimeter is broken too damnit so I cannot pindown how far passed the
P/S any current is going.

On 1/3/2015 1:25 PM, Ewan Colsell ewanuno@...
[akaiS1000S1100Samplers] wrote:
> sounds like the whole LCD is bad. if the backlight is bad you can
> stiill read the LCD under a good light.
>
> it *could* be something much worse though.
>
> if I remember correctly, the s1000 boots up with test wave forms in
> memory.  you should be able to get it to make some noise by letting it
> boot up,  then pressing the sample key then the play key.(I'm not at
> home so I can't be sure I'm remembering correctly)
>
> or alternativly use the test menu as described in the service manual.
>
> I'd. try to get some sound out of it before buying a new LCD.
>
> ewan.
>
> On 02/01/2015, Merence Tckenna pinealapoptosis@...
> [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] <akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
>> Well it seems to be booting up because after fiddling with the power
>> wires I turned it back on and this time the LCD display was grey and
>> slowly started to create vertical dark colored lines until the whole
>> screen was full but I still cannot read anything.
>>
>> New LCD all together or just the backlight?
>>
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