Need help in the Spokane area!
2016-02-23 by Shelley Bacon
Do any of our group members live anywhere near Spokane? I live 1.5 hours north of there (Colville) and have a significant issue with my IO center. The mother-board may be kaput, but it is possible there MAY be a way to work around needing that and the PRC to control the piano. I found a paper about people who worked with the Mark IV to discover a way to connect via computer, which may or may not require the PRC to talk to the piano's IO center first. Martin (at the Yamaha place) just re-imaged the computer, so that is working fine, but the wireless LAN card doesn't give out a signal or receive a signal or ---whatever! The light on the LAN card doesn't blink when you plug it in. (The LAN card IS working; it blinks when plugged into the PRC.) Here is a link to the paper on connecting to the Mark IV via computer: http://music.arts.uci.edu/dobrian/disklavier/DisklavierPaper060907.pdf Is anyone familiar with this? Can I pay someone to come help me? Maybe we could even work on this via Skype. It is still possible I will have to replace the motherboard, but that costs $2,000+, according to Martin. I would really like to avoid this if possible! If I can connect via Ethernet without having the PRC connect to the piano first (which Martin thinks will likely not work, but is open to the possibility it can), that would be ideal. Thanks for your time.Shelley509-684-1005