Re: Re: Dead DX7 Mark I - Repair questions -- Help!

 Hi AntoineNormally, and for strictly humour's sake, if something is not functioning, we (my fellow electronics/ electrical engineers and technicians) will refer to that object/ hardware as " fucked, buggered, NFG, hooped, boned, dead, just resting, demised, nailed to it's perch, pooched, peeeinin' for the fjords," etc....you get the idea.   Any variant on the Monty Python- Dead Parrot Sketch vernacular is acceptable, clear in meaning and routinely used, in my local circles, Canada and most of the continent. But the same British humour confuses many Americans, it seems.. I will employ more common terminology in future as this group appears to be rather gentlemanly and quite polite, generally speaking. And quite international, as you have pointed out. It is also very informative and useful for us DX practitioners. When sharing technical instructions with people of unknown skill/ experience level, it often works better to use humour and bluntness to get the points across. But I also like to see proper international-level English used where possible, as do you apparently.Cheers,Gregg
    On Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 12:10:17 a.m. PST, [email protected] [YamahaDX] <[email protected]> wrote:  
 
     

I have a DX7 II with E! that had very similar symptoms when I bought it off of ebay, and all it needed was a new battery and to reinitialize the E! 
I don't remember the initialization process, it was a bit convoluted but well documented.
So, before starting to rip out the E! and burning EPROMs etc, I would do as Gregg suggests: check the power supply and battery voltages and replace the battery (and capacitors, if needed), re-initialize the E! and that might be all there is to it.
Also, if you only want to use it as a MIDI controller, maybe it already works well enough for that even with its display showing weird characters.
--Antoine
P.S. There are many non-native English speaker on this forum (and on the Internet in general) so please try to avoid using slang, rare or unusual words like "pooched" and "per" especially when the meaning you intend doesn't match what dictionaries think the word means:
I had only ever seen the word "pooch" used to mean "dog" before, but apparently it has an entirely different meaning:

pooch: verb informal•USpast tense: pooched; past participle: pooched   
   - protrude or cause to protrude."a dress that made her stomach pooch out even more than usual"
Similarly, according to Oxford dictionary, per is a preposition and means: "for each" and "by means of".
"which would be tough per gigging.""I'm hoping to use it like a Hammond B3 as I think the edges weren’t so sharp per waterfall techniques."Don't you just mean "for gigging" and "for the waterfall technique" ?