Hi guys, new here and just in search of a solution to my pickle.
Just bought a Behringer MX9000 as a blemish item off eBay (chip in the side paneling, no prob), arrived on Friday and everything was fine, very impressed. Saturday the problem started, then no problem on Sunday, and then Monday it was constant, as it was today. Here goes..
Regardless of what kind of signal is running into it (or any at all, it might be quiet and it'll do this) it will randomly and intermittently crap itself, you don't have to touch anything, it just seems to decide for itself:
1. Meter bridge blanks out.
2. Sound drops - you can still hear it faintly in the background, but it's distorted and about -60db (and the bus routing ceases to work)
3. The +17 light on the power supply field on the main board goes out. I THINK THIS IS THE KEY, based on my readings on the net these things seem prone to PSU problems, but I'll continue..
4. The MAIN SOLO light comes ON
5. The activity lights (green '-20' lights) come on for channels 21, 22, 23, 17, 12, 10, 7 and 4. NOTE: They flicker as though they're reading activity, but there's NOTHING running into those channels.
6. Turning the power on the external PSU off and then on resets it ... for a bit... again, intermittent, might be a couple of hours, might be 10 seconds before it craps itself again. ALSO, 'flicking' the power (turning it ALMOST all the way off and then releasing it) works, but again, for a 'bit' ...
At first I thought it might be a current problem (I have a *LOT* of juice running through this room), so I ran an extension cord from a seperate circuit up through the basement into the room, but like that rotten cat, the issue reoccurs .. I even repositioned the PSU, thinking that maybe magnetic fields from the 15" sub it was sitting on was causing problems, but no joy.
I even took some video of it acting up (pardon the coarse language, this is really frustrating for me!
it's at :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8T-DfI1urjY
I'm no electrician but I have dabbled a lot over the years and have a pretty good operating knowledge of electronics and can follow instructions. If anyone has dealt with this problem before and knows how to fix it, or sees the answer staring them in the face, or ANYTHING, I would be forever indebted to them and would wish a thousand happy good karma points at them. I'm desperate!
TIA
Just bought a Behringer MX9000 as a blemish item off eBay (chip in the side paneling, no prob), arrived on Friday and everything was fine, very impressed. Saturday the problem started, then no problem on Sunday, and then Monday it was constant, as it was today. Here goes..
Regardless of what kind of signal is running into it (or any at all, it might be quiet and it'll do this) it will randomly and intermittently crap itself, you don't have to touch anything, it just seems to decide for itself:
1. Meter bridge blanks out.
2. Sound drops - you can still hear it faintly in the background, but it's distorted and about -60db (and the bus routing ceases to work)
3. The +17 light on the power supply field on the main board goes out. I THINK THIS IS THE KEY, based on my readings on the net these things seem prone to PSU problems, but I'll continue..
4. The MAIN SOLO light comes ON
5. The activity lights (green '-20' lights) come on for channels 21, 22, 23, 17, 12, 10, 7 and 4. NOTE: They flicker as though they're reading activity, but there's NOTHING running into those channels.
6. Turning the power on the external PSU off and then on resets it ... for a bit... again, intermittent, might be a couple of hours, might be 10 seconds before it craps itself again. ALSO, 'flicking' the power (turning it ALMOST all the way off and then releasing it) works, but again, for a 'bit' ...
At first I thought it might be a current problem (I have a *LOT* of juice running through this room), so I ran an extension cord from a seperate circuit up through the basement into the room, but like that rotten cat, the issue reoccurs .. I even repositioned the PSU, thinking that maybe magnetic fields from the 15" sub it was sitting on was causing problems, but no joy.
I even took some video of it acting up (pardon the coarse language, this is really frustrating for me!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8T-DfI1urjY
I'm no electrician but I have dabbled a lot over the years and have a pretty good operating knowledge of electronics and can follow instructions. If anyone has dealt with this problem before and knows how to fix it, or sees the answer staring them in the face, or ANYTHING, I would be forever indebted to them and would wish a thousand happy good karma points at them. I'm desperate!
TIA