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Yo all...

2002-05-22 by kruz@beatbazar.com

Hi E2 users...
I'm Nicola from Italy... i'm trying to take back to life a old emuII that
seems to be not very healty...
I mean... i've bought it as "broken" and it was missing the OS too, so as
soon as i gpt a copy of the latest OS disk, i went to test it. It was
working, even if the LCD is quite totally faded away. Anyway, it was
working, i've cleaned it all, eack key, eack pot, and pressed each chip in
its socket, done some test againg...sampling and palyback... found that the
5th voice is out of order, anyway, i was having fun sampling and sampling
when it started to crash, totally blocked. So after some turn off/turn on,
the boot is hanging... sometimes i get "boot in progress", sometime "insert
floppy", sometimes the display is fading up and down slowly and sometimes
some red leds keeps on.
Now, maybe i'm wrong but it sound to me like a boot rom failure or a PSU
failure.
So, now i'm testing the psu out, but i would also like to burn a copy of teh
latest boot rom, as i have acces to a boot programmer i need just the binary
image file... the Scan rom is a 3.0, the boot is unknow cause there is no
label on it, the serial of my machine is unknown too cause the serial label
is missing too... but i can tell you the serial of the Digital Board (rev1
serial#1749) and the Output Board (May 1984 serial#1570)...also...there is a
number wrote with a marker inside the case of the eII... i think that it
shuld be its serial and it's #5796.
So... hope that someone here could help me out as i really would like to
give this old baby a new life.

Ciao ciao...

.kruz

PS: check my SP1200 pictures of Rob's website!!!  ;)

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