Emax

> what!!!? My problem with the E-Max started when I bought a secondhand
> rack-version from a guy who told me that this unit had 4 or maybe 8 Mb of
> memory inside.He did not know for sure because he had not been using it
> for a couple of years and had lost his SCSI-cable for the
> harddrive(gasp,gasp).Well I bought it anyway,for a good price. When I
> started it for the first time the display told me that the unit had a
> "soundmemorysize error". I shut it down and the same warning came up
> again. I then tried to boot from a floppy-disc with the latest os and to
> my surprise the warning was gone.Only problem was,the memorysize was down
> to 1 Mb!! "Is there anybody out there"that can help me to get those
> precious Mb back cause I love the sound of a healthy E-Max ll.

Don't panic! 

A 4 thru 8Mb Emax II has a daughterboard with all the extra memory 
that plugs into the original memory board of the unit. These are 
notoriously difficult to get in and seated well enough for the Emax II to 
recognize them. Chances are while in storage or while being moved 
this board came loose and the Emax now doesn't see the amount of 
memory it expects. 

You need to unplug the unit, take it off the top panel (back panel 
comes with it to) and try to reseat the daughterboard. Chances are 
once you do that the unit will see the memory and that's that.

Pay attention to what you are doing while taking it apart, often the 
output board's ribbon cable becomes unplugged and you'll need to plug 
it back in before closing the unit up. 

There is a very slight chance that the Emax II might want you to 
reinitialize the memory which means you might need to call E-mu. But, 
don't worry about that, because it's highly doubtful.



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