Emax

sorry about my intromission (and my poor english), but... what does 
it mean reseat ?

what you say is to remove chips and put them back again?

how can you be carefully about the static?

I'm not a technician, but sometimes i do  that, and i'm not carefull 
at all. 

One time, a friend has an E-mu Vintage Keys module, and the unit 
stops sounding and differents errors were displayed, so i started to 
make shortcircuits in the pin 1 2 and 3, and voila... the problem was 
resolved.

was that a static electricity problem?

 



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Griffin <ingsoc_1979@...> wrote:
>
> This sounds like it could also be heat related. 
> 
> Emaxen are 20 years old now.
> 
> If you know your soft/firmware are okay and your 5V is
> somewhat in spec then...
> 
> CAREFULLY reseat every chip and every connection on
> your motherboard. This includes the big, fat one. This
> will take time. Control static electricity as much as
> possible, you absolutely don't want to pop your E-Chip
> or any of the custom PAL's.
> 
> Practice this on something that you don't care about
> to get the hang of the way it feels when you slide the
> small flatblade screwdriver underneath and patiently
> pry them up. Think old 386 motherboards...
> 
> It isn't even necessary to completely remove the chips
> from the sockets. Just merely move them around some.
> 
> Take a sharpie marker and mark the orientation of any
> connectors you may remove. In fact, I reseat every
> connection on everything that comes through here when
> I get something. You are breaking up little oxidations
> and the like between the metals.
> 
> This is very common on E-mu gear- EIII, EII, SP-12,
> SP1200...
> 
> [w]
> 
> 
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