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I was adding a new sound rom this morning and after installing the 
SIMM my MP7 wont boot.  When I turn the power on all lights are 
illuminated and the OS never loads.  Nothing is displayed on the 
LED.  I removed the SIMM and tryed it again and the same thing is 
happening.  I have had this problem once before after installing a 
SIMM, but it was caused by a cable that came disconnected.  I have 
verified all cables and am still having this problem. Please Help!!!

I remember something about it not booting if you didn't have it screwed
completely back together?  Hmmm, you took the rom out and tried to boot without
it and it still wouldn't boot?

If it does boot, then you may have a bad rom - Try taking the rom out, and
booting with both cursor keys down, see if it loads debug functions.  If it does
then scroll to self test and try it out. If any of the tests pass your probably
ok.

Andre

-----Original Message-----
From: kmusard [mailto:kmusard@...]
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:36 AM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xl7] Help MP7 wont boot


I was adding a new sound rom this morning and after installing the
SIMM my MP7 wont boot.  When I turn the power on all lights are
illuminated and the OS never loads.  Nothing is displayed on the
LED.  I removed the SIMM and tryed it again and the same thing is
happening.  I have had this problem once before after installing a
SIMM, but it was caused by a cable that came disconnected.  I have
verified all cables and am still having this problem. Please Help!!!



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After many power cycles I got the machine to boot back
up.  I was able to play my patterns and presets
successfully.  I thought everything was OK, then I
tried to play some patterns from cubase via MIDI and
the LED on the MP7 went crazy.  It started scrolling
from left to right displaying alot of strange
characters.  I stopped the midi transmission and the
stuff continued to scroll across the MP7 screen.  I
powered the unit off and now I have the same problem
again of the machine not booting and all the LEDS
remaining lit.  Has anyone run into this problem or
similar before?
--- Andre Lewis <andrel@...> wrote:
> I remember something about it not booting if you
> didn't have it screwed
> completely back together?  Hmmm, you took the rom
> out and tried to boot without
> it and it still wouldn't boot?
> 
> If it does boot, then you may have a bad rom - Try
> taking the rom out, and
> booting with both cursor keys down, see if it loads
> debug functions.  If it does
> then scroll to self test and try it out. If any of
> the tests pass your probably
> ok.
> 
> Andre
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kmusard [mailto:kmusard@...]
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [xl7] Help MP7 wont boot
> 
> 
> I was adding a new sound rom this morning and after
> installing the
> SIMM my MP7 wont boot.  When I turn the power on all
> lights are
> illuminated and the OS never loads.  Nothing is
> displayed on the
> LED.  I removed the SIMM and tryed it again and the
> same thing is
> happening.  I have had this problem once before
> after installing a
> SIMM, but it was caused by a cable that came
> disconnected.  I have
> verified all cables and am still having this
> problem. Please Help!!!
> 
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
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> 
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> 
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Yipes.  Sounds like you may have shocked the poor thing while you were
installing the SIMM or something.  I'd recommend taking it to a service
center.  In short of that, I'd check to make sure that nothing got
dropped in the unit while installing the ROM and that you didn't bend
any pins on the socket.  Also, make sure all the ribbon cables are
connected (but I think you said you already did that).

If you can get it to boot again, I'd recommend running diagnostics on
it, but be careful, many of them blow away user data.

-Aaron

--- Kris Musard <kmusard@...> wrote:
> After many power cycles I got the machine to boot back
> up.  I was able to play my patterns and presets
> successfully.  I thought everything was OK, then I
> tried to play some patterns from cubase via MIDI and
> the LED on the MP7 went crazy.  It started scrolling
> from left to right displaying alot of strange
> characters.  I stopped the midi transmission and the
> stuff continued to scroll across the MP7 screen.  I
> powered the unit off and now I have the same problem
> again of the machine not booting and all the LEDS
> remaining lit.  Has anyone run into this problem or
> similar before?


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I used to have problems with older Emu gear and sysex - The only thing I can
think of is to change your device ID in the MP7 to another number (should be in
the Midi menu).  This would only be usefull if you are really transmitting to
more than one device, IE you had a Yamaha keyboard or something and the sysex
for this was being used on the XL7 with random results because the ID's are the
same. This will sometimes happen if you are using midi echo functionality and
another piece of gear sends out sysex rpn or nrpn info, which gets echoed back
to the MP7, once again just make sure your device ID's are different.
	Another Sysex related culprit would be if you were transmitting sysex patch
info (from a previous sysex dump into cubase) too quickly for the MP7 to process
correctly.  If you're doing something like this you want to make sure that there
is a tempo change event at the very beggining of your cubase project to
something like 60bpm, transmit your sysex, then a few bars later put another
tempo change in to the tempo you really want it at.  If you play back sysex via
your sequencer (Usually just to make sure your song always loads the right
sounds correctly no-matter-what) you need to make sure the speed doesn't pump
too much accross midi or it will get corrupted.
	If you are really just using the MP7 by itself, or not using sysex, I would
really suggest going through the self test functions (Hold down the left and
right cursor buttons while powering on) to see if it thinks it's ok.  If it
reports problems (Note you will fail the Midi Loopback test unless you plug one
side of a midi cable in to out A on the MP7, and the other into In on the MP7)
you will have to send it back to Emu, but they are really good about making your
life better so it could be worse.  If you DO get it to come back up, definately
make a backup of all your work using eLoader or something.

Hope this helps,
Andre

-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Musard [mailto:kmusard@...]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:02 AM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [xl7] Help MP7 wont boot


After many power cycles I got the machine to boot back
up.  I was able to play my patterns and presets
successfully.  I thought everything was OK, then I
tried to play some patterns from cubase via MIDI and
the LED on the MP7 went crazy.  It started scrolling
from left to right displaying alot of strange
characters.  I stopped the midi transmission and the
stuff continued to scroll across the MP7 screen.  I
powered the unit off and now I have the same problem
again of the machine not booting and all the LEDS
remaining lit.  Has anyone run into this problem or
similar before?
--- Andre Lewis <andrel@...> wrote:
> I remember something about it not booting if you
> didn't have it screwed
> completely back together?  Hmmm, you took the rom
> out and tried to boot without
> it and it still wouldn't boot?
>
> If it does boot, then you may have a bad rom - Try
> taking the rom out, and
> booting with both cursor keys down, see if it loads
> debug functions.  If it does
> then scroll to self test and try it out. If any of
> the tests pass your probably
> ok.
>
> Andre
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kmusard [mailto:kmusard@...]
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [xl7] Help MP7 wont boot
>
>
> I was adding a new sound rom this morning and after
> installing the
> SIMM my MP7 wont boot.  When I turn the power on all
> lights are
> illuminated and the OS never loads.  Nothing is
> displayed on the
> LED.  I removed the SIMM and tryed it again and the
> same thing is
> happening.  I have had this problem once before
> after installing a
> SIMM, but it was caused by a cable that came
> disconnected.  I have
> verified all cables and am still having this
> problem. Please Help!!!
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>


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