Pioneer 434/504 service menu

I know how to enter it is it legal though for me to say it to other people?

 

Yes.
Tell me.

 

Put the unit on standby.Press the channel info button and wait 3-4 seconds. Then press left,up,left,right and then the orange button that puts the panel to standby. The panel should switch on displaying the service menu. Enjoy!

 

Nice one.

 

Forgive me for maybe asking a naive question .. but what extra options do you have in service mode ?

 

Channel Info button? do you mean EPG? and do you mean press & hold for 3-4 secs or press, release & wait.


[Edited] OK, I've got it....but what does it all mean? as Gordon says "lots to screw up!"

most interesting is the timer (ours has now done 250 hours....must be nearly time to refill the gas <grin>), bearing in mind the oft repeated exhortatations to keep the brightness down for the first 100+ hours to minimise screen burn.

 

Gordon, I presume this is the kind of stuff you'd be fiddling around with as part of the ISF calibration?

 

If you screw up, will the reset button save you?

Could anyone list out the major items on the menu?

 

If you screw up in the service menu, you are screwed! Write down the settings before changing anything.

William

 

Gordon, does that mean still no formal calibration is possible? Any idea when that might be do-able?

Thx

 

How can i see how many hours the panel has been on? any ideas?

 

Go into the service menu and scroll through the pages (using the channel up/down buttons). On about the 3rd or 4th page you will see the hours counter. There are 2 of them and I'm not sure what the differences are other than on mine they are about 2 hours apart.

 

It looks like one might be for the media receiver and the other for the panel.

 

I may be wrong,but thats my interpretation too,Brogan.More worryingly for me is that the difference between the two is 83 hours..........



hammerman

 

I don't own a Pioneer 504/434, but I am looking to purchase.

Can anyone tell me if in the Service Menu there are adjustments for the overscan, and also if the menu is easy to navigate, and hence make adjustments.

Based on my demonstrations so far, I would say the RGB and S-video are overscanned to a large degree, but component seems not too bad (I haven't checked with HDMI).

Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

i've tried this and it doesn't seem to work??
do you press and hold or wait a few seconds?? i've triede both and nothing!

 

Do exactly as it says in the original post:

Put the unit into standby
Press and release the channel info button and wait 3-4 seconds
Press left, up, left, right and then the orange button that puts the panel to standby
The panel should switch on displaying the service menu

 

This does not work on my 434.
Alan

 

Damn fool question, I know, but are you pressing the right "first" button? It took me a while to discover which is the correct one (it's on the right hand side of the remote, next to "0", with i+ on it, Duh! ).

 

Rags = dipstick.

 

i was using the right button and it never worked. Tried again last night and on my 4th go it worked!!! 212hrs!!

 

That's how long you've been trying to get the service menu up?!

 

got there in the end!

 

Joe,

Any date for the A304 yet ? Still very keen on your thoughts on it especially with the 433 - and especially given the hit/miss reviews on the US forum. Some folks seem to get all wrapped up in the native rate and d/a+a/d issues.

Cheers

Nick