Display Panel Borked

[ticker]

About 2 days ago, the digital display panel on my AE started misbehaving. Basically, the display fills with random characters and other non-sense to the point you can't read what the patch name is. Tweaking knobs around does not seem to help. Turning the unit off and back on does not even seem to help. When I do that, whatever jumbled mess was visible at the time of power off, remains visible at power-on except you can see very small parts of the Moog logo appear for a short amount of time.

Occasionally though, this problem is non-existent. There's no pattern to it that I can tell. Given a full nights rest, my AE might power up to no display problems at all (for a while at least) or it might have a problem immediately after power on even if it has been resting all night. Really annoying! Otherwise, the Voyager is operating as expected.

I am afraid someone is going to advise a repair job

Thanks.

[Boeing 737-400]

It does sound as if the LCD has gone. Has your Voyager had any knocks, or been exposed to extreme temperature changes lately?

Maybe one of the contacts leading to the LCD has become unstuck?

I really hope, for your sake that its just a software problem.

[monads]

I would try re-loading the OS first. Back up your data and give it a try. I wasn't having display problems but weird oscillator behavior. Did the above and it went away

[GregAE]

I've never heard of this type of problem before, nor seen it reported here. It's entirely possible that the Voyager firmware is hosed in some way.

I'd take monads advice. There's no way to 'reset' the Voyager that I'm aware of, so an OS reinstall is the next best thing.

Besides, if it clears up the problem, you're good to go. If not, it didn't cost you anything to try.

[RL]

*** I would try re-loading the OS first. ***

BTW, the OS of the Voyager checks the system code after power on
and sends a message to the display if the checksum of all bytes
is not correct.