Emax

Julian-
Glad to hear your mod worked. I was out of town over the weekend and  
just got back in.

The fact that your emax shows the diags is a good sign. Also- I  
believe if you hold the transpose ID you should get an ID select to  
choose a HD. Also, if booted off floppy I supplied, you should see  
options in the menu to format HD, etc. even if no drive is connected.  
Any functions will of course error if activated since no drive is  
present.

Jip-

 > On the first attempt I powered it on and there were about 10 little  
black squares in the readout.
I believe that the black blocks on the screen have something to do  
with the EEPROM socket connections. I have a dead Emax Rack board that  
exhibits this that I need to look into to see if I can fix it. If I  
find the answer for that, then I will post to the group....

 >On the second attempt, after re-soldering a few joints, I powered up  
again and that time I smelled a kind of burning odor. So I powered down

This does worry me - as Julian mentioned, you may need a tech to help  
you out.


Regards,
Ted







On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:32 AM, mr julian wrote:

well, just a note to say I finished the mods, put it all back together
and seem to have an upgraded emax (seem to - cause I have no SCSI drives
I can use with it just yet....)

On first powering up the emax, I had a bit of a scare, in that the whole
thing came up "dead" - no response... but a bit of disconnecting and
reseating the connectors, and it came up with the screen displaying the
word "diagnostics" - kinda like the install manual said it world... but
no mention of e-mu systems.

it booted the supplied install disk, which seemed to run with no
problems, then gave me a booted emax with empty sample RAM.

One thing I notice is that now whenever I turn it on I get the
"diagnostics" message on the screen, before it boots - But it boots my
old disks fine still, and testing it with a pattern from SEQ-303,
everything on the old disk I'm using (spectrum synth emax SE) plays
fine... So I guess I'll see what happens when I get a SCSI device
attached in there. and boot from the install disk again..... that's on
my to do list now.

Anyway - cheers for the project, Ted!
:-)

julian






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