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Troubleshooting
Chapter 6 Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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.
Tape problems
Symptom Cause Remedy
Recording is not
possible.
The cassette’s REC/SAVE switch is set
to SAVE.
Set the REC/SAVE switch to REC, or use another cassette.
The unit’s tape
transport control
buttons (PLAY, F FWD,
REW, etc.) do not
work.
The REMOTE indicator in the display
section is lit and the LOCAL ENABLE
menu item is set to STOP & EJECT or
ALL DISABLE.
Set the LOCAL/REMOTE switch to LOCAL to turn the
REMOTE indicator off, or change the setting of the LOCAL
ENABLE menu item (see page 60) to ALL ENABLE.
No cassette is loaded. Insert a cassette (see page 25).
The NO EDIT indicator
on the front panel lights
up.
The audio recording mode selected on
this unit does not coincides with that of
the loaded tape.
• When your current purpose is editing, set the LOCAL/
REMOTE switch to LOCAL to turn the REMOTE indicator
off and set the unit for the same audio recording mode as
with the tape using the REC MODE menu item (see page
66), then set the switch to REMOTE to light the REMOTE
indicator again.
• 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 or DVCPRO.
Replace the tape with one recorded in the DVCAM format.
The recording format selected on this
unit is DV (SP).
Select the DVCAM format.
Time data problems
Symptom Cause Remedy
Cannot freely set the
initial time data value.
The TC MODE menu item is set to EXT
REGEN.
Change the setting of the TC MODE menu item (see page
63) to INT PRESET.
CNT is selected as the time data type
to be displayed (the COUNTER time
data type indicator is lit).
Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the TC or U-
BIT time data type indicator light up (the CNT value cannot
be set freely).
The REMOTE indicator in the display
section is lit and the LOCAL ENABLE
menu item is set to STOP & EJECT or
ALL DISABLE.
Set the LOCAL/REMOTE switch to LOCAL to turn the
REMOTE indicator off or change the setting of the LOCAL
ENABLE menu item (see page 60) to ALL ENABLE.
The tape is running,
but the time data is not
shown in the time
counter display.
The MENU button or TC PRESET
button in the menu control section 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 the menu control mode and time code preset
mode, the time data is not shown in the time counter display.)
The U-BIT time data type indicator is lit. Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the
COUNTER or TC time data type indicator light up.
Input problem
Symptom Cause Remedy
It is not possible to
record an SDTI (QSDI)
signal.
No SDTI signal is input to the unit, or
the SDTI format has not been selected.
Connect an SDTI signal to the SDI/SDTI (QSDI) IN
connector, or set the DIGITAL OUTPUT menu item (see
page 68) to SDTI.