I love my Yamaha P-250 stage piano but

Hi. Thanks for all the info here. Will the P250 even complete a factory reset without the ROM boards? Does it need them to complete the reset? I am wondering if this is my problem. This thing sits 45 min. then finally comes on and is screaming. I try to reset it and it never seems to complete.

Well, Iā€™m back at it after a few years. I had to retire to find the time. I have Idā€™d all the capacitors on the MA60 board and will order all parts and rebuild BOTH of the MA60ā€™s I have. The Circuit Board number says Yamaha XQ393 and the part number box says VT144301. The board is an MA60 J-U meaning Japanese and USA model. (FYI, These AND the transformer are available online from All About Music Parts. Yamaha VT144301 VT144300 MA60 P150 Power supply and Amplifier CVP CLP | eBay ) Then I will recap the P250 DM Main Boardā€¦(still not available anywhere). .That will be a bit more difficult with the small parts. Stay tuned! :grinning:

Well all 30 capacitors I have now been replaced on my ā€œspareā€ MA60 power supply.
I was able to buy them locally in Burbank at TAW Electronics. That is a single-sided traditional circuit board. NOW looking at the DM Main Board there are 30+ surface-mount capacitorsā€¦some close together. I do not have surface mount (SMD) capacitor removal/replacement experience. So I will do my research, get the parts and create my list and try to find a good SMD specialist here in Los Angeles. If you folks know of a better idea please chime in.! :slight_smile:

I done all the SMD caps on a CVP-501 to no avail and also done same on an Electone HC8 with no good result either ā€¦ to find out why yours is not working I think itā€™ll be better to chase down exactly what is wrong than just replace caps. If it comes down to a bad ROM chip then there wonā€™t be a solution anyway and you spent a lot of time, effort and money on ā€¦?!

Hi Werner! There is one Rom Chip (WML or WMH) available on Syntaur. But how would I program it?
I do have another P250 here. I can swap parts to identify the bad part. I had done this before and it came down to the DM board. My wife wants me to toss the whole keyboardā€¦or part it outā€¦and Iā€™m not ready to do that! And most folks know that the shipping these days for a very heavy P250 is not practical. and very expensive.

I just replaced most of the caps on the main board. It didnā€™t help mine in the least. Instead of replacing them all I used an in circuit cap tester. Some were very bad, some bad, some were good. In any event my issue is with something other than the caps.

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And there are Rom boards.
I will try to swap those also

The recapped MS60 power supply resulted in the proper fast boot process! But the audio is distorted. Next full reset and the saga continues!