Fairlight-CMI

hi Hans,

That must be terror. 

One thing you should never do is to reattach a connector while
equipment is running, some pins may become connected before others do
for one thing.


My suspicion is this:

- the cable has a loose wire and is causing a short in the cable. Use
a voltage meter and test whether any pin connects to more than one
other pin (or open the connector you plugged in again and visually
inspect).

- Unplug the plug that came loose and see whether the monitor comes
back online.


You can mail me in Dutch directly.

Regards and good luck,
Harald.


On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:40:10 -0000, you wrote:

>The machine hasn't been moved. What happened was, I booted up, page 
>1 appeared, then I noticed no responce from the keypad (LED) and 
>qwerty keyboard. I saw that the communication cable (which isn't the 
>orignal, so without the locks) had left lose from the other 
>connector. And I pushed it back in the connector. At that moment the 
>screen went green and no Led's on the keypad. I tried some different 
>kind of boot-ups, but no succes. Also waited a day. I haven't tried 
>to load any sounds, because I thought the system wasn't responding. 
>It's an idea to try this, to figure out what's still working.
>
>Hans
>
>
>--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Andy L <chesti99@...> wrote:
>>
>> At 21:59 16/04/2007, you wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >after connecting the communication cable from the keyboard to the
>> >mainframe, with the power on, my system doesn't start up anymore
>> >(static electricity). It only shows a green square on the monitor 
>and
>> >the keypad of the music keyboard doesn't show any text at all.
>> 
>> Has the machine been moved since it was last in operation and how 
>long 
>> since the machine was last used?
>> 
>> >  I've
>> >checked all the fuses on the back of the mainframe, they all are 
>OK.
>> >Also disconneced the music keyboard and plugged the qwerty 
>keyboard
>> >directly into the mainframe. Also no effect. I can here the 
>diskdrives
>> >running when I put in the boot disk, but nothing changes on the 
>screen
>> >or keypad.
>> >Did anybody else have experience with this problem? Are there also
>> >fuses on the cards inside the mainframe? If not which card could 
>have
>> >something to do with this problem?
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance
>> >
>> >Hans