Pioneer 434/504 service menu

[ggp159]

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

 

[Brogan]

Yes.
Tell me.

 

[ggp159]

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!

 

[Brogan]

Nice one.

 

[llanellijack]

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

 

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Lots to allow you to really screw the thing up


enjoy.

Gordon

 

[llanellijack]

 

[suzywong]

Originally posted by ggp159
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!

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.

 

[Brogan]

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

 

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

As the ISF RS232 control software is not yet available that is the area I have been using to work on these models just now

Gordon

 

[kevtotty]

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

Could anyone list out the major items on the menu?

 

[WSquared]

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

William

 

[Senninha]

Originally posted by Gordon @ Convergent AV
As the ISF RS232 control software is not yet available that is the area I have been using to work on these models just now

Gordon

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

Thx

 

[ggp159]

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

 

[Messiah]

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.

 

[Brogan]

Originally posted by Messiah
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.

 

[hammerman]

Originally posted by Brogan
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

 

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Senninha:

The ISF mode cal for the US models allows two independant ISF modes per input I believe. We do not know whether the software for the US models will even work and give you this with European models. Possibly not.

So just now the only solution is to use this service menu and to calibrate different settings dependant on incoming signal type. In this regard it is possible to do a greyscale calibration on these units just now. It might be possible to do it differently (possibly with more accuracy but this is unknown) in the future.

Gordon

 

[Focus]

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.

 

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

No overscan adjustment.

Gordon

 

[chillo]

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.

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!

 

[Brogan]

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

 

[alanlar]

This does not work on my 434.
Alan

 

[suzywong]

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]

Rags = dipstick.