Fairlight-CMI

Hi Harald and all,

thanks for the reply about the battery ! That was the solution.

But there are still two other problems with my IIx machine :-( and I 
could need some more advice....maybe you can help:

After re-seating the CPU card after the battery removal the CMI was 
working again. Not properly, but at least the same way as it "worked" 
before I performed the battery removal. Here's a description of what 
it did:

When I switched it on, the CMI presented its "loading system" 
message, but froze shortly before displaying the Index page. It 
couldn't reach the Index page.

I thought it might have something to do with connecting problems of 
the cards in the slots after 28 years, so today I had all the cards 
removed from the slots, cleaned the connectors of the cards and put 
them back into the mainframe. Success ! At least sort of...

Now the machine boots again, but doesn't show or find any Voice cards 
any more. Just if they are not in the machine. But they are.

Did I miss something somewhere ??

The second problem is, and I had it before in the past:
Sometimes I can play around with it for ages, and it seems to work. 
But then suddenly it freezes. Sometimes very quickly after booting. 
Sometimes after a much longer time.
What could this be ? Still dirty slots ? --> Connecting problems ?
Faulty/partly broken cables somewhere ?

Did anyone had this problem before ? Any ideas ?

What I also noticed is that I cannot reset it any more from the reset 
button on the mainframe panel. It used to work perfectly in the past. 
Does that give any hint for the problem(s) ?

To summerize the two problems:

(1) Why are the voice cards not recognized by the system any more 
after I had them out of the machine for some minutes ?

(2) Why does it sometimes freeze ?

Thanks a lot or any help in advance

Roland