Emax

It is really easy to gain access to the HD. Put the emax upside down (a soft cloth under it is recommended. Then remove all the screens on the rear cover (except the ones for the black "legs").

Then you will gain access to the Power Supply, Analog Board, Digital Board, HD and Floppy drive. (except the buttons panel, all the boards are easily reachable).

Check the HD power supply wires. Please take special care if you pull up the Emax Power supply output socket (three groups of four wires). A big manufacturing fault is that it has not polarity on the socket, so you could put it back reversed by mistake ... ( and it is talking one who did it once, luckily the emax didn't blow up, it stood for over a minute with reversed wires and neither the digital board nor the power supply suffered any damage, I still can't believe it :)

Grounding yourself is highly recommended every time you open a keyboard. You could graze some chip, and if static is in your hand, the chip can get fried.

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Baum" <daniel@...> wrote:
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> Thanks. I really hope that's all it is :)
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> I'll open it up and have a look as soon as possible. 
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> Silly question time: how does it open up? I don't want to remove the wrong screws and find that I've removed the motherboard or something . . .
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> I've never had one of these open before, so is there anything I should know before I do? I assume from the sheer size of the thing that it's not exactly cramped in there?
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> Thanks,
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> Daniel
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