Troubleshooting
If an alarm message appears on the monitor screen, or if the unit appears to be malfunctioning, please check the following before contacting your Sony dealer.
Recording/playback problems
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Recording is not | Disk is full. | Delete unneeded data. | |
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The unit’s recording/ | The REMOTE indicator in the display | Set the control mode selector to LOCAL to turn the REMOTE | |
playback control | section is lit and the LOCAL ENABLE | indicator off, or change the setting of the LOCAL ENABLE | |
buttons (PLAY, NEXT, | menu item is set to STOP or ALL | menu item (see page 65) to ALL ENABLE. | |
PREV, etc.) do not | DISABLE. |
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Key operations are disabled (KEY | Set the control mode select switch to the LOCAL side. | ||
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Time data problems |
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Cannot freely set the | The TC MODE menu item is set to EXT | Change the setting of the TC MODE menu item (see page | |
initial time data value. | REGEN. | 68) to INT PRESET. | |
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| CNT is selected as the time data type | Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the TC or U- | |
| to be displayed (the COUNTER time | BIT time data type indicator light up (the CNT value cannot | |
| data type indicator is lit). | be set freely). | |
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| The REMOTE indicator in the display | Set the control mode selector to LOCAL to turn the REMOTE | |
| section is lit and the LOCAL ENABLE | indicator off or change the setting of the LOCAL ENABLE | |
| menu item is set to STOP or ALL | menu item (see page 65) to ALL ENABLE. | |
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During recording or | The MENU button has been pressed. | Press the button once again to exit the menu control mode, | |
playback the time data |
| time code preset mode, or digital hours meter display mode. | |
is not shown in the time |
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counter display. |
| mode, the time data is not shown in the time counter display.) | |
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| The | Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the | |
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| COUNTER or TC time data type indicator light up. | |
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Monitor problems |
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Data is not | The CHARA. DISPLAY menu item is | Set the CHARA. DISPLAY menu item (see page 66) to ON. | |
superimposed on the | set to OFF. |
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monitor screen. |
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The monitor is not connected to the | Connect the monitor to the SUPER connector. (You must | ||
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| SUPER connector of this unit. | make this connection to display any type of text on the | |
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The image on the | The 75 Ω termination switch for video | Set the 75 Ω termination switch to ON or connect a | |
monitor screen is too | input on the monitor is in the OFF | terminator. | |
bright. | position, or a 75 Ω terminator is not |
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| fitted to its video input connector. |
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The image on the | In a video signal | Set the 75 Ω termination switches to OFF on all monitors | |
monitor screen is too | connection of video monitors, 75 Ω | other than the | |
dark. | termination switches for video input on |
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The image is too dark |
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monitor are in the ON position. |
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when recording a |
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composite video |
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signal. |
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96 Troubleshooting