When you refer to a new power supply, are you talking about power for your mics (i.e. phantopm power supply or a mic battery box)? If so, this should have no bearing on the functionality of the deck as you described. My experience with SOny portable DATs is with D7/D8, but often I had problems like this if a tape misloaded - usually the deck would power off by itself, and then power back up and unload. Often when this occurred it came along with a tape that was partially eaten by the deck. Misloads could also happen to a lesser severity by the deck powering down and then up but the tape seemingly loaded, only to find out later that despite the deck rolling and the level meter going, the tape is blank. The standard advice was to always load a tape with the screen light on - this way if it misloaded and subsequently powered down and then back up and you didn't notice it, the light would have turned itself off in the process and you should notice this. Turn on the light and load a tape and of the light is still on,t he tape should be properly loaded.
Since you were able to subsequently use the deck without problems, I'm inclined to not quite yet buy into the doom and gloom prognosis. Try it a bunch more times at home or other less critical setting and see if it continues to work fine. If so, I'd say you either had a bad tape or the deck just didn't load properly. Did you unpack the tape before using it (i.e. FF all the way to the end and then RR back to the beginning)? I typically do this in my R500 home deck so I don't put the wear and tear on the portable, and then insert this unpacked tape (with deck light on) into my portable. If it loads up fine then turn off the light and you should be good to go.
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