Korg Poly800/EX800 Users group photo

Yahoo Groups archive

Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 23:27 UTC

Message

Re: Poly 800 Mk1 - new EPROM

2007-07-24 by Erik Hines

Have you tried doing a preset sysx dump? I find these Poly's all the 
time for $20 because the owner 'thinks' the unit is bad. After doing 
a sysx dump with the factory presets, voila! a fully funtional poly. 
I'd start there...

Erik

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "b_e_r_n_a_r_d_g_u_i_l_l_a_u_m_e" 
<jbgd@...> wrote:
>
> hi -
> I have a crashed poly 800mk1. It doesn't react, weird display, 
nothing but a bubbling low 
> sound. Seems like it lost the firmware and I need to replace the 
EPROM, right ? 
> Have the eprom bin hex data file, could get a new eprom, but don't 
know how to do it and do 
> not want to buy an eprom burner just for this one time. I am in 
Vienna, often in Paris too, any 
> suggestion where I can have this done easy, fast and at moderate 
costs ? Anywhere within 
> Europe would be cool.
> thanks -- Bernard Guillaume
>

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.