Vintage Synth Repair

Unfortunately I can't help you more with this as I don't have this  
instrument or any experience with it. Maybe you can try to ask  
Kurzweil yahoo groups, or some forum... I'm sure there's a lot of  
users of this successful instrument.

If there's no software setting for SCSI device number, it should be  
possible to set with selector directly on the device. Try to change  
ID on the external CD-ROM, and then different number than actual one  
on the internal HD (here probably with jumpers). But I just guess,  
problem can be anywhere...

Good luck.

Daniel Forro


On 25 Nov 2010, at 3:02 PM, brofjw wrote:

> Well, no. I did not do that. But that doesn't explain why it  
> freezes up in the disk menu. Once youre in it you apparently can't  
> get out of it. I would assume that you would assign the SCSI and  
> disk preferences as you suggest, from this menu. Or is there  
> another route? I thank for your interest so far, Dan. Maybe this  
> reply helps clarify the problem. I definately get you on the idea  
> of an address conflict, which is why I unplugged the hard drive  
> again. But it still doesn't do anything. I won't even load floppies  
> anymore. This was all apparently a result of unplugging and  
> plugging that hard drive in again. So maybe the previous owner did  
> have a reason.
>
> --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forró  
> <dan.for@...> wrote:
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>> Have you set different SCSI address for each of SCSI devices? Maybe
>> there's just device address conflict.
>>
>> Daniel Forro
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>> On 25 Nov 2010, at 10:57 AM, brofjw wrote:
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>>> Hi. I've had this Kurzweil K2000R for about a year now and I'm
>>> starting to think it's jinxed. It seemed to have a dead internal
>>> battery, something I knew when I bought it. I found out later that
>>> the battery holder had cracked (as many K2000R's have). While I had
>>> the cover open, I also noticed that this unit actually had a hard
>>> drive inside but someone had disconnected both the power and the
>>> ribbon cable. Until then I had been using floppies and an SCSI cd-
>>> drive. I plugged the hard rive in and was thrilled to find it
>>> worked perfectly. (Why would someone unplug it if it worked fine?)
>>> Anyway sent away to Hong Kong for a generic battery holder and
>>> replaced the factory one with it. That also worked perfectly.
>>> Here's where the trouble starts:
>>>
>>> After ascertaining that the hard drive worked, I also plugged back
>>> in my SCSI CD-drive. For some reason the K2000 didn't pick it up. I
>>> figured the internal hard drive must have replaced the SCSI drive.
>>> So I uplugged the hard drive again and tried to boot the CD-drive.
>>> No dice. At this point when I hit "disk", the K2000 only
>>> acknowledges the flopy drive and there is no list of either the
>>> hard drive or SCSI. What's more, it seems to get stuck on the
>>> "disk" menu and refuses all commands thereafter. Does anyone have
>>> any idea what is wrong with this thing? I can still play the
>>> internal RAM sounds, no problem. But this is the tip of the iceberg
>>> for this machines capabilities, in theory. Should shoot this thing
>>> and put it out of its misery? Or should I sell it for a measly $100
>>> and move on? Or is there some simple solution I am not seeing? Any
>>> help is appreciated. Thanks! :-)
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