Originally Posted by
AZ_Ron
Hi all... I'm hoping for the best, but planning for the worst at this point.
As the old saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished"...
I'm trying to help out one of my best friends, he has a '96 VF3 and last week got the message about the battery dying, 30 days, etc...
He mentioned it to me and I did a little digging and it looked like it was something that should be pretty easily doable for myself.
I soldered up a 3V lithium battery with a connector on it to temporarily power the board while I replaced the pair of 3V batteries. I took lots of pics to make sure when everything went back together I didn't miss anything or could confirm if I wasn't sure.
I plugged in the temporary battery, then proceeded to remove the board from the machine to do the replacement on the bench, as his machine is a bit to close to the wall and the back door opens to about 40 degrees... it's tight, and I could get the boards out, but would have been very difficult if not impossible to do the battery replacement back there.
I replaced one battery at a time, all the while making sure the connector for the temporary battery stayed secure. After reinstalling the board and powering up the machine, the monitor comes up with "System Failure" and "CRC Error". There are no codes.
He has a data/parameter sheet that has everything listed on it, but the information in the machine wasn't backed up to disk before the swap.
Does this sound like we lost all the settings and parameters for some reason, or is this a sign of something more ominous?
I haven't had any luck finding a procedure for reentering the parameters from his sheet... Can anyone point me in the right direction?
He's hit a pretty rough spot and is scraping by, so I'm trying to help him out and am really dreading that I might have screwed the pooch on this.
I'd really appreciated any help/advice any of you'd be willing to pass on...
Thanks VERY much in advance!
Ron