VCR Operating Instructions DSR-85, 85P

Chapter 6 Maintenance and Troubleshooting 71
Chapter 6 Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
If an alarm message appears on the monitor screen or
the time counter display, or if the unit appears to be
malfunctioning, please check the following before
contacting your Sony dealer.
a) In these states, an alarm message appears on the
monitor screen and on the time counter display.
Tape problems
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.
The unit’s tape transport
control buttons (PLAY, F FWD,
REW, etc.) do not work.
The REMOTE/LOCAL switch is set to
REMOTE and “LOCAL ENABLE” under
the OPERATIONAL FUNCTION menu
item is set to “STOP & EJECT” or “ALL
DISABLE”.
a)
Set the REMOTE/LOCAL switch to LOCAL and
change the menu setting of “LOCAL ENABLE” to
“ALL ENABLE”.
(See page 42.)
No cassette is loaded.
a)
Insert a cassette. (See page 24.)
The NOT EDITABLE indicator
on the front panel lights up.
The recording mode selected on this unit
does not coincides with that of the
loaded tape.
a)
• When your current purpose is editing, set the
REMOTE/LOCAL switch to LOCAL and set the
unit for the same recording mode as with the
tape, then reset the REMOTE/LOCAL switch to
REMOTE.
• 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”.
a)
• If you are using the unit for recording, you can
use the currently loaded tape.
• 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.
Time data problems
Symptom Cause Remedy
Cannot freely set the time
data’s initial value.
“TC MODE” under the TIME CODE
menu item has been set to “EXT
REGEN”.
a)
Change the menu setting of “TC MODE” to “INT
PRESET”.
(See page 45.)
The REMOTE/LOCAL switch is set to
REMOTE and “LOCAL ENABLE” under
the OPERATIONAL FUNCTION menu
item is set to “STOP & EJECT” or “ALL
DISABLE”.
a)
Set the REMOTE/LOCAL switch to LOCAL and
change the menu setting of “LOCAL ENABLE” to
“ALL ENABLE”.
(See page 42.)
The tape is running, but the
time data is not shown in the
time counter display.
The MENU button or TC PRESET button
on the menu control panel has been
pressed.
Press the button once again to exit the menu
control mode, time code preset mode, or digital
hours meter display mode. (In either of these
modes, the time data is not shown in the time
counter display.)
CNT is selected as the time data type to
be displayed. (The “COUNTER” time
data type indicator is lit.)
a)
Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the
“TC” or “U-BIT” time data type indicator light up.
Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the
“COUNTER” or “TC” time data type indicator light
up.
The “U-BIT” time data type indicator is lit.
Input problems
Symptom Cause Remedy
It is not possible to record a
QSDI signal.
No QSDI signal is input to the unit.
a)
Connect a QSDI signal to the QSDI INPUT
connector.