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  1. Thanks to everyone who has tried to help. I have been able to keep using my PX 560 to set up some registrations which are working correctly when I recall them. The touch screen is still weird. When I am in a page setting anything up touching exit doesn't exit me back to anything. for now I've given up. Life is too short. I do know that I will never buy or recommend a Casio to any one of my students or fellow musicians. The company has NEVER responded to me. Only people on this forum. Thanks again. Paul
  2. Hi everybody. My apologies for not getting back sooner. My Casio Privia touch screen issues continue. I tired to re-calibrate the screen using directions that are posted on this forum but when I get to the TEST screen I can't select anything. the up and down buttons won't work. I tried the proceedure again and this time a different screen showed up but I could not select "Calibrate" and I have to turn the keyboard off and on again. I live in Connecticut so I think I'll have to find a Casio technician, if they exist. Thanks again
  3. Thanks for the calibration info. When I go to the LCD/TP Test Menu I can not select any of the choices.

    Seems like the touch screen locks up  on me just like when I'm trying to use the keyboard normaly.

    Thanks

    Paul

    1. Jokeyman123

      Jokeyman123

      At least you've eliminated calibration as the problem. I'm guessing at this point-but it might not be the Screen at fault-the screen is only revealing what it is being fed-if you can't (or don't want to) disassemble this yourself to check the usual obvious problems-bad connections primarily-it might be a deeper defect unfortunately. If the screen's backlight and graphics are clear-as far as what you can see-the screen is probably no the problem. I am guessing this is a mainboard or related problem. Usually a chip screen driver fault will scramble characters or be intermittent-but wouldn't necessarily lock the screen. This type of lockup is usually, on several keyboards I've worked on-something scrambling up the internal OS routines-without deeper troubleshooting to locate where this is malfunctioning-preferably with a scope and multimeter, it is impossible for me to help any further. How have your power sources been? If you played in places with marginal or malfunctioning AC (it happens, I used to carry a multimeter to gigs to test the AC receptacles to see what I was dealing with-and used Tripplite power regulators constantly) here could be some (unfortunately) internal damage. Try alternate power supplies-the Casio original is still good? I also use 12V lithium power packs for backup and testing-no AC ripple or interference out the AC receptacles-to determine if the Casio supply is good-it can measure OK for voltage, but be defective for amperage-undersupplying amperage to a keyboard can lock it up.

    2. keys88

      keys88

      Thanks Jokeyman. I will try your suggestions. I am still using the original power supply.

      I can select tones and set up Registrations ....but only once before I can't get back to the main screen.

    3. Jokeyman123

      Jokeyman123

      I have one more trick you can try-it may do nothing-but it won't harm anything, and it will sound strange, but worth a try. If you can kluge a barrel plug that matches the size of the one on your Casio-you might have to buy an assortment of these in various sizes that are usually designed for laptop power adapters, I have a huge bunch-and terminate this barrel plug with 2 open leads-as if you were cutting the barrel plug off your Casio power adapter. Plug this into the power jack and short the 2 wires-if it works (I am guessing but have had this work on a few other keyboards) it will act as if you are "cold-booting" the PX-which you can't do with the software routine's factory reset-and it might clear any software errors that could have occurred with a power brownout or surge. Leave these connected for around 15 seconds or more. I am not sure why this can work with all the complexity of internal logic chips but I have managed with an older set of keyboards to clear the memory and get these to boot up again.

       

      There are no internal batteries in the PX560 I could find and I've had mine completely disassembled-so there is no chance any live voltage shorting and causing damage but do at your own risk. It may do nothing, but sometimes repairs require "black magic" as even a minor temporary error in one line of code can do amazingly bad things to these IC controlled devices, just like the "BSOD" in the Windows OS, which is almost always the IC trying to address a memory slot that isn't there, or once was but no longer exists, or throws out the wrong memory address for a slot that is there (yeah I had to learn all that).

  4. Thanks Brad! I was able to update the firmware but the touch screen still locks up on me. I tried a factory reset but still have the same issue. Can the touch screen be replaced? Thanks Again Paul
  5. Hi All. Any help with this is appreciated. My 560M touch screen is very unreliable. I'll select a new tone for the upper 1 tone but can never get back to the main screen. The menu/main/exit tabs never work again unless I turn the casio of and then on again. I have tried to update the firmware but when I un zip the "update.bin" download my desktop iMAC says that it is an unsupported format. I'm using an iMAC running system OS Catalina 10.15.7 . As of this posting all I can do with this Casio is turn it on and play the grand piano sound. Trying to set up registrations is useless and I have been stuck on gigs having to turn the casio on and off again. Does anyone know if my touch screen can be placed of how I can update my firmware? THanks Paul
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