Vintage Synth Repair

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "Brendan Haley" 
<b.haley@...> wrote:

 
> I have a broken Prophet 600 that powers up. I get no sound out of 
it, and "gibberish" on the numerical readout.

> Any thoughts, or anyone out there willing to give me some hints, or 
maybe tell me some more directed things to try?

> 
> -brendan
>

Hi,

I do not have a P600 but my Matrix 1000 suddenly started to behave 
exactly the same way. By touching the chips I found the CPU is 
running hotter than all the others. Like, BURNING hot. I checked the 
voltages and they´re OK, so it looks like the chip is fried and has 
to be replaced by a new one, which is what I am going to do. These 
things probably have a short lifespan.

Paulo.