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Hello EII people

So I?m working on my pcb board .
I?ve made some solder to change ceramic capacitors and change w1 w2 w3 w4 to upgrade to EII+ .
It was late on the evening and tired and I wonder about a solder on IC11.
On this pictures can you tell me if the solder connexion is correct between the 2 pins or it is a bad manipulation I?ve made myself?? Maybe I?ve made a wrong connexion when I soldered w1 w2 w3 w4??
I have tons of  pcb pictures with IC but no pictures from the other side 

Thank you

Hi,

I'm by no means an expert, but if it were my unit I would try reseating the cards in the cage, check the power supply cable that connects to the vertically mounted motherboard and the ribbon cable that links the control panel to one of the cards in the cage.

Just my 1 cent (I won't even say it's worth two!)

My EIII all of the sudden has no output and DATA slider is not working.
It's not the Relay or 5532 it's more of a CPU card problem, I think.

Data slider and Keyboard works fine during tests but Data slider doesn't work when for example going thru banks, presets etc

Any ideas?

I recently experienced the same error and the problem was the cable running between the vertical "motherboard" and the top cover.  (Not the ribbon cable)

All I had to do was reseat the connection and the EII was back to normal.

I found the issue.  My FF.CFG file was wrong.  here's what worked:

## FF.CFG: Example FlashFloppy Configuration File

# Place in the root folder or FF/ subfolder of your USB drive.
# Uncommented lines below are the default settings.
# Uncommented options cannot be overridden by settings in other config files.

##
## DRIVE EMULATION

# Floppy-drive interface mode
# shugart: P2=DSKCHG, P34=RDY
# ibmpc: P2=unused, P34=DSKCHG
# ibmpc-hdout: P2=HD_OUT, P34=DSKCHG
# akai-s950: P2=HD_OUT, P34=RDY (Akai S950)
# amiga: P2=DSKCHG, P34=DRIVE_ID (not generally needed: prefer 'shugart')
# jc: JC closed: ibmpc, JC open: shugart
interface = shugart

# Pins 2 & 34 manual configuration
# auto: Auto-configure from interface= setting
# nc: Unused/No Connection
# low: Always 0 volts (0v)
# high: Always 5 volts (5v)
# rdy: Drive ready (Ready = 0v)
# nrdy: Logical complement of above
# dens: Density mode (High Density = 0v)
# ndens: Logical complement of above
# chg: Disk changed (Changed = 0v)
# nchg: Logical complement of above
# Values: auto, nc, low, high, rdy, nrdy, dens, ndens, chg, nchg
pin02 = auto
pin34 = auto

# Host platform: Improves image-format detection for generic types such as IMG
# acorn: Acorn ADFS
# akai: Akai (S01, S20, S950)
# dec: DEC (RX33, RX50)
# ensoniq: Ensoniq (ASR, TS, etc)
# gem: General Music (S2, S3)
# memotech: Memotech
# msx: MSX
# pc98: NEC PC-98
# pc-dos: PC DOS Format (geometry determined from Bios Parameter Block)
# ti99: TI-99/4A
# uknc: UKNC / DVK Soviet PDP-11
# unspecified: Common default geometries (including IBM PC)
host = unspecified

# Forcibly write-protect images, or respect the FAT read-only attribute?
# Values: yes | no
write-protect = no

# Filter glitches in the SIDE-select signal shorter than N microseconds
# Values: 0 <= N <= 255
side-select-glitch-filter = 0

# Rotational offset of data after a track change
# instant: No rotation during track change
# realtime: Emulate rotation of disk while track is changing
# Values: instant | realtime
track-change = instant

# Index pulses suppressed when RDATA and WDATA inactive?
# Values: yes | no
index-suppression = yes

##
## STARTUP / INITIALISATION

# Disk image loaded or ejected at startup?
# Values: yes | no
ejected-on-startup = no

# Which image (or folder) is selected at startup?
# last: Last-selected item at power-off (recorded in IMAGE_A.CFG)
# static: Static path specified in IMAGE_A.CFG
# init: First item in root folder
# Values: last | static | init
image-on-startup = last

# Time in milliseconds to attempt to probe attached display.
# You may set this to 0 if you have a 2-digit LED display attached.
# Values: 0 <= N <= 65535
display-probe-ms = 3000

##
## IMAGE NAVIGATION

# Auto-select the current file after N seconds
# N=0: disable auto-select
# Values: 0 <= N <= 255
autoselect-file-secs = 2

# Auto-select the current folder after N seconds
# N=0: disable auto-select
# Values: 0 <= N <= 255
autoselect-folder-secs = 2

# Navigation mode for selecting images/slots
# native:  Navigate through all valid images/dirs
# indexed: Navigate through DSKA0000, DSKA0001, ...
# default: native unless overridden by HxC-compat-mode config
nav-mode = native

# When navigating slots or folder, loop at min/max?
# Values: yes | no
nav-loop = yes

# Actions of first two buttons.
#              B1     | B2     | Both
# zero:        Prev   | Next   | Slot 0
# eject:       Prev   | Next   | Eject/Insert
# rotary:      Up-dir | Select | -
# rotary-fast: Prev   | Next   | Up-dir [Prev/Next are accelerated]
twobutton-action = zero

# Type of rotary encoder connected to pins PC10 and PC11, identified by
# fraction of a Gray-code cycle performed per detent/click.
# If default value ('full') requires multiple clicks/detents to move position
# then change to 'half' (if 2 clicks per move) or 'quarter' (if 4 clicks).
# Values: none | quarter | half | full
rotary = full

##
## DISPLAY

# Display Type: <type>[-rotate][-narrow][-sh1106]
# auto: Auto-detect (7-seg LED, LCD, OLED)
# lcd-NNx02: NNx2 backlit LCD with I2C backpack (16 <= NN <= 40)
# oled-128xNN: 128xNN I2C OLED (NN = 32 | 64)
#  -rotate: OLED view is rotated 180 degrees
#  -narrow: OLED view is restricted to Gotek display cutout
#  -sh1106: OLED controller is SH1106, not SSD1306
# Values: auto | lcd-NNx02 | oled-128xNN[-rotate][-narrow][-sh1106]
display-type = oled-128x32-rotate

# OLED Font. Narrow and wide options.
# Narrower 6x13 font permits:
#  - More characters per row
#  - Use of Gotek display cutout (with "display-type=oled-128x32-narrow")
# Values: 6x13 | 8x16
oled-font = 8x16

# Turn an LCD or OLED display off after N seconds of inactivity
# N=0: always off; N=255: always on
# Values: 0 <= N <= 255
display-off-secs = 60

# Automatically switch LCD/OLED display on when there is drive activity?
# Values: yes | no
display-on-activity = yes

# LCD/OLED long filename scroll rate in milliseconds per update
# Values: 100 <= N <= 65535
display-scroll-rate = 200

# LCD/OLED pause time at start/end of scroll, in milliseconds
# Zero means endless scroll
# Values: 0 <= N <= 65535
display-scroll-pause = 2000

# LCD/OLED long filename scroll rate during navigation (ms per update)
# Values: 0 <= N <= 65535
nav-scroll-rate = 80

# LCD/OLED long filename pause before scroll, during navigation (milliseconds)
# Values: 0 <= N <= 65535
nav-scroll-pause = 300

##
## MISCELLANEOUS

# Speaker volume for head STEP
# Values: 0 <= N <= 20
step-volume = 10

# Report the specified version number to host software
# Values: <quoted-string> ("" means report real version)
# eg. da-report-version = "v3.0.0.0"
da-report-version = ""

# Automatically extend certain types of truncated image file (SSD,DSD,TRD)?
# Values: yes | no
extend-image = yes

I'm trying to install a Gotek drive and am running into problems.  I formatted the thumb drive FAT32 and the Gotek displays the HFE files, but the EII will not boot.  I'm pretty sure the HFE files are good because I copied them from an SD card used in a Lotharek floppy emulator.

I tried using EMXP to create disk images from the HFE files and changed the extension on the resulting files to IMG.  The Gotek recognized the IMG files but ERR*31 was displayed by the Gotek.

What am I missing?

There is no difference.
The Turbo is an EMAX 2 which is delivered with 8MB and stereo option.
Some user bought this options later and this Models have no Turbo label.

What is the difference between usual stereo emax 2 8mb and turbo version? is it possible to upgrade to turbo?

Kirill

I put in a new chip and the weird messages seem to have gone away.

Ran the memory test operation again and got, "**Emulator/)***