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Hi Guys,

Here's an update to my voice problem.  Today I cleaned/ reseated 
every single chip on the problem channel #7 plus every single IC on 
the digital board. I also took the keyboard apart and gave the 
contact board a good cleaning as well. Then came the big drumroll at 
power up: But now it freezes up on startup as follows:

At power-up both drives flash and the display says "Insert Diskette" 
as usual.  But when I insert a sound diskette, the EII now freezes 
up. And it seems that I get a different display readings depending on 
the sounddisk that I put in the drive.

So far I got these error messages with a freeze-up:

Emulator 2***
No 2Ware. Rev. 3.1

The drive stops and the machine does not respond to any buttons 
whatsoever. 

Another variation I got was:

Insert Diskette 
Software Rev. 3.1

and freezes up.


I have the boot chip v.2.1 installed. At least the sticker on the 
chip says so. The sounddisks that came with the EII were made with 
different OS versions as stated on the disk labels. Some are in V1.8 
some in various versions of 2.x and then there is one disk that says 
EMU Software V.3.0. I tried to put all these disks in but the machine 
continues to freeze up. 

Before the cleaning/chip reseating the EII would at least load all 
these diskettes aside from the voice problem. 

Why does my EII ask for Software 3.1 when the boot rom I have 
installed is V2.1? And why is it freezing up now? Can anyone shed 
light on this? 

I hope I didn't mess anything up during the cleaning. I wore a 
grounding-bracelet throughout the procedure and used an IC-Extractor 
tool and was super-mega careful. I used Isopropyl Alcohol with q-tips.

FYI: I have an EII+ (inside), dual memory banks, 2 x 5.25" drives but 
with the classic lettering on the exterior. 

I'm getting really frustrated. Anyone?

George