So I have been all excited about buying a Kurzweil PC3 LE7 for ~$1000. It arrived today nicely packed etc. I bought it from a seller with 100's of transactions and a 100% rating. The seller also offers a 14 day return guarantee so I'm covered.

I turned it on and all the buttons came up blinking with a lighted but blank LCD. On the 4th attempt it loaded the presets and it worked for 10 seconds and then went blank.

Funny thing- I have bought many used keyboards on Ebay & the local music store and never had a problem with anything. I am a gadjet geek & have found the electronics in general to be very reliable.

And since-say-sice approximately 1988 I have never had any device that has a CPU and needs to boot to have this specific problem.

Therefore, I find it vexing that this is my specific problem. Believe me-I am well aware that things break. I just don't want my toys to break.

And I am not crazy about Korean electronics; may be now I know why the reason for that. And I can't do a master reset because I don't have a system to reset. May be a firmware USB reset if the firmware has a bootloader? Any ideas? Other than return this beast? Thanks

Hi,

Post a message over at "Keyboard Corner" on the Musicplayer forums for Dave Weiser. He is a Kurzweil employee of many years standing and a really nice guy as well

http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/18/page/1

Dennis

Thanks very much for the tip.

NP I have also sent a personal message to Dave asking if it is okay to pass on his personal email addy. If he agrees I will send you a PM with the address.

Dennis

I appreciate it! That's a good forum. I took my keyboard to an authorized Kurzweil Service center today. I got the tech to open the keyboard because I thought my boot problem could be a loose connector. When he opened the back-we both could not find an unseated connector BUt we did find that some kind of work had been done previously. I am a very experienced electronic tech & have own Korgs, yamahas, and rolands-new & used.
As a class-I have never had any serious problems with synths. The only thing I know about Kurzweils is that they sound great but I have never heard too much about Kurzweils. I don't know if they can be buggy or unreliable. The previous work done whatever it is, just makes me a little nervous. My general experience with modern electronics is: if you have to fix a problem-that should be the end of it. But I do have that choice but I want to keep this insrument! But am I getting a lemon? I'm sure your friend would know for sure!

My K2500 has been bombproof for well over 16 years.

Re. the title... almost anything is the sound if you can get it to boot!