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Chapter 8 Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Chapter 8 Maintenance and Troubleshooting 137
Troubleshooting
If an alarm message appears in the display section or
on the video monitor connected to this unit, or if the
unit appears to be malfunctioning, please check the
following before contacting your Sony dealer.
Operation problems
Tape problems
Time data problems
a) In these states, alarm messages appear in the diaplay section and on the monitor screen.
Symptom Cause Remedy
The unit’s control buttons do
not work.
The KEY INHIBIT switch on the
subsidiary control panel is set to ON.
Set the KEY INHIBIT switch on the subsidiary
control panel to OFF.
The CONTROL PANEL switch on the
subsidiary control panel is set to EXT.
• Set the CONTROL PANEL switch on the
subsidiary control panel to INT.
• Set extended menu item 117 to PARA.
The unit’s transport control
buttons (PLAY, F FWD, REW,
etc.) do not work.
The REMOTE button is lit and menu item
006 (LOCAL FUNCTION ENABLE) is set
to ST&EJ or DIS.
a)
Turn off the REMOTE button and, on the
subsidiary control panel, set the KEY INHIBIT
switch and CONTROL PANEL switch to OFF and
INT, respectively.
No cassette is loaded.
a)
Insert a cassette.
Symptom Cause Remedy
Recording is not possible. The cassette’s REC/SAVE switch is set
to SAVE.
a)
Set the REC/SAVE switch to REC, or use
another cassette.
The REC INHIBIT switch on the
subsidiary control panel is set to ON.
Set the REC INHIBIT switch on the subsidiary
control panel to OFF.
The NOT EDITABLE indication
appears in the display section.
The recording mode selected on this unit
does not coincide with that of the loaded
tape.
a)
• Set the unit for the same recording mode as with
the tape.
• When your current purpose is recording, you
can use the tape currently loaded in the unit.
The recording format of the currently
loaded tape is DV or DVCPRO.
• You can use the currently loaded tape as a
source tape for playback and editing.
• You cannot use the tape as a recording tape for
editing.
Symptom Cause Remedy
Cannot set the time data to an
optional initial value.
The PRESET/REGEN switch on the
subsidiary control panel is set to
REGEN.
a)
Set the PRESET/REGEN switch on the
subsidiary control panel to PRESET.
The counter value is selected as the time
data for display (the COUNTER indicator
is lit in the display section).
a)
Press the COUNTER SEL button to light the TC
(time code) or U-BIT (user bits) indicator in the
display section (the counter value cannot be
preset).
The tape is running, but the
time data does not appear in
the display section.
The HOLD button has been pressed. Press the button once again to exit the time code
preset mode.
The U-BIT indicator is lit in the display
section.
a)
Press the COUNTER SEL button to light the
COUNTER (counter value) or TC (time code)
indicator in the display section.
Turn off the REMOTE button and, on the
subsidiary control panel, set the KEY INHIBIT
switch and CONTROL PANEL switch to OFF and
INT, respectively.