I’ve been struggling to sort out some gremlins in my main system, which is anchored by a 2010-vintage G65 acquired second hand from a member of this parish a few years ago. After plenty of reconfiguration I still had a persistent distortion problem with the center channel, occasionally lost configuration, and sometimes the G65 wouldn’t boot.
The recommendation for misbehaving G65s is always to re-seat the cards, so I took out the approximately 8,000 screws necessary to get the lid off and remove the back panel, re-seated all the cards, but nothing much changed … dammit. But in doing so, I noticed the gold finger-tracks on the cards were looking grimy and oxidized, so after a bit of Googling thought I’d follow the advice of the PC restoration crowd and clean them using isopropyl alcohol (IPA).
Looking more closely at the cards, all the digital cards looked pretty good and cleaned up well. The analogue cards looked like they had some heat-related discoloration, they were definitely grimier, and took a whole bunch more time and effort to get them back to respectable condition with the help of the IPA and a big pile of cotton buds.
This does seem to have sorted the issues - the center channel distortion has vanished, and the whole system seems much more stable and reliable. So that’s a win, and if you’re experiencing G-series issues then I’d recommend giving it a try. Given the processors come in audio-looking boxes we tend to think of them as the same as our preamps of decades past, but in fact they’re basically just custom PCs - so we should probably maintain them more as (in my case) 15 year old vintage computers.
And as an aside, if you’ve ever set the fan option for the G65 to “when needed” or similar in MConfig, don’t waste your time with the setting. In my model year at least, there’s no fan in there.
Hope this helps someone at some point!
Google Search
|
Meridian Systems
|
Meridian Streaming
|
Restaurant
|
WiKi
|
Duncan's Meridian Info
|
Board Rules
|
Restaurant Rules
