Hi, long time no see.

I’ve been so happy with the FF800 for the last nine years, but just lately it has developed a problem. It’s connected to the same Furman Power conditioner that my computer, so I usually don’t use the FF800 power switch but turn the Furman on and then boot up the computer. Usually the FF800 shows the LEVEL IN/OUT lights and the HOST light, the last one until the computer has booted up.

Lately, not every time but more and more often, no lights on power-up but slightly blinking SIG light on the front panel channel 1, accompanied with hardly audible clicking sound (that sounds much louder on the headphones if they are connected, even with the volume all the way down). Sometimes everything goes back to normal if you just switch the FF800 off and on (from its own switch), sometimes you need to power down the computer, turn the Furman down and then turn everything on again. I’m afraid one day this doesn’t help either.

The clicking sounds to me like a relay, so I would think this might be a hardware problem. Anyway, the FF800 is up to date (Firmware 2.77, Drivers 3.124). Computer has Windows 10 / 64 bit, up to date, although I don’t remember this starting after any system or software update. (I was just off for a long weekend and had things powered down – FF800 doesn’t have any memory backup battery that might be running out, does it?)

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Mwah