Hello sir, I know I'm supposed to go as far as I can before I ask for help is all and all the posts I see everyone seems so smart. Ok well thank you very, very much for the reply. test prog 1. not sure what that means. test core 1, yes but is it right? # is a100abc, does polarity matter? test core 2, N/A? brand new from smash. test core 3, checked and checked and checked, I haven't done much electronics soldering but I do plenty of copper pipe silver soldering and understand how it flows, I think I did a pretty good job! also checked some with a continuity tester. test core 4, all checks out at 5.06 test core 5, all checks at 5.06 except j3, I cant find it. test core 6, this is where I started having problems, I,m not sure how to do this, I don,t get voltage when checked between the two points indicated. test core 7, I get .-0.16 one way and 0.20 the other way, not sure if I'm doing this right. test core 8, both about 217 test core 9, check test core 10, I don't get excess messages test core 11, cap is soldered well, I don't have a spare plus I haven't got a message like that test out 1, I have leds on my usb adaptor and they both flash ( tascam us 122l) I don't have any others test out 2, should I disconnect this? test pc 1, appears to be fine test pc 2, not sure what the settings should be, tried 256 and 512 and 60 ms. I'm kinda out of time right now. Am I going in the right direction? Thank you very much for your time, Conrad