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Hello -

So as of late I have been experiencing the common issue where you loose audio and have to reseat the molex power supply cable/connector that runs from behind the power supply pcb to the DSP card on the back of the cage.

I am getting tired of doing it and I am about to just solder some hookup wire to each contact and create a permanent fixed wiring to these points.

My question is, has anyone else tried this?

I have thrown that sugesstion out before but I don't know if anyone has give it a shot. I don't see why it wouldn't be a viable fix.

@ Crash

Yeah, Im going to knock it out tomorrow and post pics and results. this is getting ridiculous…after bending the prongs for better connection it works for about a day solid. But if i power down and boot back up it may or may not come back, so i have to unscrew bottom reseat connector again and it comes back.

Before doing that i had to play with it every 1hr or so.

thanks

Thanks Topdiggy2

hope you can post some pictures and tell us just what
you done. because I too think its getting ridiculous
to have to take the back off every time this happing

thanks Joe Allen

Hey guys -

sorry, had to go out of town after posting and then i postponed doing it until this week...im off for the holidays. So, i will tackle this project tomorrw and keep yall posted. Going to run out to radio shack in a few to buy some crimp pins

My plan is to cut 4x pieces of hookup wire, place a crimp on both ends, place crimp lead on each pin, then solder in place. And see how that works for a week, if i get any audio loss, freezes.

Hi Topdiggy2

did you ever get knocked out if so can you post some
pictures so we all can see.

thanks Joe Allen

Yeah, finished it up last night...working on posting the pics today. Check back later this afternoon. I got some running around to do. But i wanted to let it run for 24-48hr burn in before i posted results. But so far so good. when i get back i will power cycle a few dozen times to make sure the problem is gone.

Hey Joe -

I went ahead and posted the pics and step by step in a new thread in the D8b forum. Check it out. Its been working fine so far...been burning in for about 48hrs playing itunes on across 8 tape sends/returns. No loss of audio at all.

I finally will put the bottom back on in the morning.