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Originally Posted by ArmyOfQuad
Well, something seems to be up with my tate. I just plugged it in and decided to use it after letting it sit for a while, and for two seconds I heard sound, and then a pop and it kinda went dead. If I switched it into bypass signal will still go through, and the lights still blink so it's taking signal in, but that's as far as it gets. Any ideas how I can get this thing working again?
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Well, I guess the only "good news" that I can infer from your post is that you're not getting any sound through the decoder at all. Usually if a TATE chip fails you'll only lose one or two channels, you'd have to lose both sides of two chips to lose all four at once. So, it may very well be a power supply problem.
But, to even find out for sure, you're looking at some pretty serious troubleshooting and repair. Email me if you want to go into more specifics.
The bottom line is that your TATE just confirmed what I posted back in March:
Just hope this serves as a warning to all of you running TATE IIs and/or S&ICs.......if you're using them now...restore them ASAP!!!! Once those ICs fail.....your ultimate SQ decoder is finished.
Good luck with whatever you do, hope it can be saved!