I just joined the group yesterday. If you can point me to the previous discussion I'd appreciate it. The problem is it sometimes powers on without a display, other times it's limited to 7 or so characters and other times the whole diplay fills up with random characters than change when I press the keys. It seems too erratic to be a self-test mode.

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , Peter Mörck <peter@...> wrote:
>
> This sounds familiar...
> Isn't this part of the display CPU self-test mode functionality, or
> something like that
> Wasn't something like this discussed on this list about a month ago or so
>
> BR,
> Peter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: wesleyknick
> To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:47 PM
> Subject: [oberheim] Re: Oberheim Matrix 6, Dead
>
>
> Most of the time it just powers on with a string of characters in the
> display and pressing the keys simply enters new characters in the display as
> though I'm typing them in.
>