I recently purchased a lovely EmaxII 8mb Rackmount unit whose only problem seems to have been a blown fuse, for $50...once I replaced the fuse (for the power switch: 250, 2a) everything works fine EXCEPT: 1)it has an internal SCSI Quantum ProDrive Els (40mb i believe) and everytime i plug into the external SCSI, the Emax recognizes neither...I even tried changing the SCSI boot id and it recognized both until i tried loading a bank, when it proceeded to cop out with the SCSI Hardware error...also, it recognizes the external with no problems if the internal is disconnected... Problem 2) the lcd display, probably due to my muckin' around with the guts lost it's light, except for when i press on it...the lcd thing is a common problem I hear...also could be a victim of the original power surge which blew the fuse.... As a solution to the Lcd problem, and as a precaution against further power supply problems, I swapped guts with my emax2 keyboard, that is, I put the whole shebang from the rackmount:drives, output board...everthing except the power supply and whatever else I can't remember...so I now have the same scsi problem, which I don't really care about anyway, except as one of those things that should work but doesn't...and the lcd problem is fixed BUT: the realtime wheels don't affect the samples no matter what I do...control enable is fine etc etc... Now what I'm thinking is that either I can solve this problem (someone can walk me through replacing the lcd and verifying the integrity of the rack's power supply) or I can just put the 8mb rack guts into my 2mb rack (or was it 4?)and let you folks fight it out over whats left over: a 2(or4)mb rack synth with lcd and possible power supply problems, and a keyboard version (1mb) with a fried output board, one broken key, one fried key (samples won't go to it), and minus a fuse or two.. Please respond with qyestions and suggestions...if you're going to ask me if i considered obvious sources of the technical difficulties (besides my own bungling ie: fried 1mb output board)then please follow up with something less obvious...try to stick to layman's terms but don't shy away from using chip names, etc. as long as you can tell me where to look. Hah , sorry about the fine print... i'll take what I can get ;)
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Swapping Parts & Problems (EmaxII)
2004-02-09 by Christopher
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