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At 04:36 PM 4/16/2004, you wrote:
>The battery is in there for a stable voltage to run the system clock which 
>consists of a quartz crystal and associated circutry.  Plus it supplies 
>voltage to any volitile memory there may be in there (e.g. your user 
>settings).  If the battery dies you no longer have a stable system clock 
>so naturally the programming will go to crap since it relies on counting 
>ticks so to speak from the clock.

The battery doesn't have anything to do with the system clock. All the 
battery does is retain the user settings when the unit is powered off.  In 
fact, you can remove the battery completely and the gsp will still work 
just fine. The cpu clock is run from the power supply.

-B

ALL,
First off it was not my intention to pull any fast ones on the 
seller or dupe him, I just thought if you folks on the forum could 
possibly diagnose the problem since most of you guys are long time 
users then in my case if it was a $3.00 dollar battery I would take 
it on the chin and replace it. 

If it looked like a bad processor and/or eproms then it was 
definitely going back to the seller for a refund. That's all I had 
in mind. As I said in the original post the packing job was adequate 
at best with the unit in a box with those styrofoam peanuts and 
that's it.

**HERE's the latest:
I bought a new battery and replaced it and made sure the eproms were 
well seated and so far so good. Factory reset worked!!! Turned off 
and back on!!! A So La Mio!!! I haven't dove head first into 
Graham's midi wizard as of yet (but I will) so it looks like all is 
well for now. 

So I wanted to thank everyone that helped out with all the advice 
and things to try. (so damn fast, WOW!!!) I really, really 
appreciate it. If this thing holds then the next thing will be to 
load the midi program and then on to the fun stuff of bugging the 
shit out of all of you guys for some of those killer patches which I 
know you all have sitting on for years!!! 

Thanks again,
(Reformed 2101 user once again)
Kevin Schertell
 


--- In gsp-2101@yahoogroups.com, "Duane Urban" <starwaycorp@c...> 
wrote:
> Yeah right - you must have a magical 2101 then because mine went 
crazy when the battery died and was totally unusable.  It worked 
fine after the battery was changed although the user settings where 
gone.  
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Bob Stephenson 
>   To: gsp-2101@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 7:14 PM
>   Subject: Re: [gsp-2101] Re: My New 2101 PS
> 
> 
>   At 04:36 PM 4/16/2004, you wrote:
>   >The battery is in there for a stable voltage to run the system 
clock which 
>   >consists of a quartz crystal and associated circutry.  Plus it 
supplies 
>   >voltage to any volitile memory there may be in there (e.g. your 
user 
>   >settings).  If the battery dies you no longer have a stable 
system clock 
>   >so naturally the programming will go to crap since it relies on 
counting 
>   >ticks so to speak from the clock.
> 
>   The battery doesn't have anything to do with the system clock. 
All the 
>   battery does is retain the user settings when the unit is 
powered off.  In 
>   fact, you can remove the battery completely and the gsp will 
still work 
>   just fine. The cpu clock is run from the power supply.
> 
>   -B
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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At 07:50 PM 4/16/2004, you wrote:
>Yeah right - you must have a magical 2101 then because mine went crazy 
>when the battery died and was totally unusable.

Yes, that must be it. Magic. Forget the possibility that perhaps different 
revisions/configurations may react differently to a dead/dying battery. You 
probably won't believe this either, but my 2101 is running without the 
battery as I type this (yes, I checked before responding, and was prepared 
to eat crow if I was mistaken). Early production unit, revision A0 
mainboard, sdisc 2 on the board, sdisc 1 on the ppc, 20mhz mod, 3.00.00 
artist firmware.

>   It worked fine after the battery was changed although the user settings 
> where gone.

It looks like a new battery may have solved telecasterkid's problem as 
well. It still doesn't run the clock though :)

-B

At 10:30 PM 4/16/2004, you wrote:
>ALL,
>First off it was not my intention to pull any fast ones on the
>seller or dupe him,

Apologies if it sounded like that's what I was insinuating - it wasn't. I 
didn't want to see -you- get burned if it turned out to be more than just a 
simple fix. Anyway, I'm glad it worked out.

-B

Now, now, there seems to be some interpersonal ranking going on in the
GSP-2101 camp.
Remember, we're all in the same family.
Love you all, guys.  Keep on rockin' and keep on using the best piece of
gear ever invented.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Stephenson" <tmx_ampworks@...>
To: <gsp-2101@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [gsp-2101] Re: My New 2101 PS


> At 07:50 PM 4/16/2004, you wrote:
> >Yeah right - you must have a magical 2101 then because mine went crazy
> >when the battery died and was totally unusable.
>
> Yes, that must be it. Magic. Forget the possibility that perhaps different
> revisions/configurations may react differently to a dead/dying battery.
You
> probably won't believe this either, but my 2101 is running without the
> battery as I type this (yes, I checked before responding, and was prepared
> to eat crow if I was mistaken). Early production unit, revision A0
> mainboard, sdisc 2 on the board, sdisc 1 on the ppc, 20mhz mod, 3.00.00
> artist firmware.
>
> >   It worked fine after the battery was changed although the user
settings

> > where gone.
>
> It looks like a new battery may have solved telecasterkid's problem as
> well. It still doesn't run the clock though :)
>
> -B