emu emax help

[Stewart Pye]

At 04:50 PM 18/02/2000 -0500, Louis Otero wrote:
>    My Emax is dead.  I looked at the power supply and it looks good.
>Now when I power it up the drive light goes on and that is about it. The
>display just has a bunch of blocks on it.  Has anyone had a problem with
>there Emax or have any insight what to check next.  I guess I could send
>it back to Emu but the shipping charge probably cost more then the
>repair..
>
>Luis



Try disconnecting the analog board......
I had the same problem with my emax and discovered if I removed the analog
board it would boot up. As I have a spare dead Emax, and no service manual,
I decided to do some chip swapping. It turns out it was the AD7524JN dac
that was causing the problem. If I didn't see it with my own eyes I'd find
it hard to believe that was the problem. I'm glad the chips were socketed!!