K5synth

When my k5 was crashing it did the same thing as you. As you found,
removing battery resets the RAM. You don't need to power the K5 on to
clear it. Just remove, wait and reinstall it. The only problem is that
it's soldered to the PCB. It's the only permanant way I found.

For the backlight, try to add solder to every joints of the board
where the inverter is. Also, where they are soldered on the LCD board.

Antoine



From:  "phonophobie" <sidstation@h...>
Date:  Fri Jul 9, 2004  6:48 am
Subject:  Re: K5 eprom files .... Crash & Backlight

Hi,

K5 crash:
=========
>Multimode it crashes everytime.
>
>You didn't told me this, I already got this problem with my K5.
>Fix: Unsoldering one side of the lithium battery and resolder it. I
>got v1.0.
>(Maybe shorting + and - for a really short time will work, but they
>tell to not try this on the battery, but it might be for a long time)
>
>Note: could someone fwd it to him since @... can't send to
>@....
>

i didn´told you this before because it happened yesterday the firts
time ;)

Anyway, it´s working again! Damn this K5 is really a kind of it´s own.
First i can´t access the multis, after selecting another PGM in
midiwindow a few times and after hitting a few keys..it´s working now
again.. in fact i forgot to set protect to on again ..i guess thats
why it was going crazy. What was it at your unit? Didn´t it work for
you already then? Well mine works fine now again.. the question is how
long ;)

I don´t know if i understand this thing with the battery correctly.
( i am german - my english is not the best sometimes- sorry ) ... But
i guess you mean to take the battery out of the unit to and then power
the k5 on to clear a kind of ram storage, right ???


Note: Please send me personal emails that often - only if they are
really fo my ears only. I am hotmail - and since i get a lot of spamv
mails i don´t look that often intoo that mailbox there. Anyway info
like this is maybe helpful for others too. But thanx for your support


> Dead or ALive?
> ==============
>Read following excerpt from an original message of Curt Malouin
>
>If you're LCD backlight is not working, the first thing you
>should try is heating up the joints and applying a bit more
>solder (a lot of the inverters suffer from cold solder joints,
>I guess).

Thanx i will try that. My backlight is dead again since 2 days. A few
days ago it was really strange. The light turned on and out several
times in a minute. Does anyone here had same porblems?

Eeprom
======
will anyone do an update with these Hexfiles now?



thanx
phono


--- In k5synth@...m, Antoine Deschênes <antdes45@n...> wrote:
> Multimode it crashes everytime.
>
> You didn't told me this, I already got this problem with my K5.
> Fix: Unsoldering one side of the lithium battery and resolder it. I got
> v1.0.
> (Maybe shorting + and - for a really short time will work, but they
tell
> to not try this on the battery, but it might be for a long time)
>
> Note: could someone fwd it to him since @... can't send to
> @hotmail.com.
>
> Antoine
> --
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> sidstation@h... a écrit:
>
> > No - even the guy at Kawai didn´t know exactly what was the difference
> > between them. But he said to me that there was done some bugfixes
> > again. Since i have Problems with sysex, he mentioned that an update
> > could help. But i am still on 1.0 ... so we don´t really talked about
> > the difference from 1.2 to 1.3
> >
> > BTW.: the k5m drives me really crazy now ! when i want to go in
> > Multimode it crashes everytime. Someone mentioned that here - is there
> > anything i can do now ?! i guess an eeprom update, right? ;)
> > ...anything other than that ?
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