Last Monday morning I set up for my morning gig at a local retirement community and began to set the levels for both vocals and my Tyros 2. I have all the levels memorized so it took very little time to do this.

Everything seemed just fine...

I pull up my first song registration and immediately see something profound is wrong...

1) No registration would load other than the name of the file.

2) My 6-7-8 down buttons would not work. Data wheel did work.

3) My registration 1 button was stuck on green.

4) Somehow, the kb had split itself into a totally different mode. I had piano in the mid and high octaves and an electric bass in the lower register. I always use full keyboard, This had never happened before.

I was able to create registrations on the fly and get through the gig. I couldn't save any of them, nor did I really want to. Acoustically, the kb sounds were all fine.

Finished the gig, counted to ten and flew home to try some stuff. With the gracious help of Gary D., we tried a quick reset, a full factory reset...to no avail. I have all my files backed up in three separate locations. (A friendly reminder to all, if you have a lot of saved customized registrations on your kb, back everything up. I get lazy with this sometimes but boy am I glad I did it now!)

Fast forward to taking it to my friendly authorized factory service shop. The owner treats me like royalty and did again this time. I told him I had jarred the kb loading out late Saturday night. He immediately seemed to think something had been knocked loose or I may have cracked a circuit board. Neither of which would be fatal or that difficult to repair.

He looked...and looked...and looked...didn't find anything. Went through several of the diagnostic tests. No answers. So now major surgery begins on the T2. I had to laugh at myself for the quick case of nerves that I experienced as he and his crew pulled it all apart.

After a few hours, several scopes, meters and other devices probing my kb's various connections he announces that through the process of elimination, he's is fairly sure its a cpu chip. I said how did I hurt that when I bumped it? He said I probably didn't. Oh, it might've finished it off but it was bound to fail on me sooner rather than later.

If all goes well, I should it back up and running for next weekends gigs.

I admire you guys who can crack open your keyboards and have the confidence and knowledge to address some issues. That's never going to be me, lol...

Meanwhile, I've been using the Tyros 1 I've kept as a backup. Its very weird going backwards. Keybed is different, some sounds aren't to my liking anymore. (The growl sax on the T2 kills the one on the T1. I can't use that, its pretty thin, lol...)

Just thought I'd share...

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Bill in Dayton


[This message has been edited by Bill in Dayton (edited 02-21-2010).]