EII+ Problems...

[PJ-GOTH]

Hi, I've just get my Emu Emulator II, and I'm soooo happy about it!
But it has a problem.
When i turn it on, the dispolay ask me the diskette and the 2 diskette reader start to blinkin with a yellow light..
I put the diskette on and the floppy start to load the diskette fro 2/3 second...then it stop and the display says:
Insert diskette software rev 3. and it stop to load.

i tried to used other diskette and it say me.
Emulator II
Software rev 3 and it stops to load and do nothing...

somone can help me?!?

thanks a lot
PJ

[dr.c]

Looks like you need the 3.1 software....

[PJ-GOTH]

yes maybe...when i bought the EII+ they gave me like 30 floppy...
I received the Emu yesterday so i'm going to check all the floppy... i will let you know later when i finish so i can give you a right idea..

in case where i can find the REV 3.1 software?

thanks a lot for your reply

[dr.c]

No problemo !

Try to see if its written on the floppy ! I don't like the idea of powering up 30 times an E2 in a row, that's the best way to kill it !

Once you have the floppy, make a software copy on all the others, I mean, the performance floppies, NOT the library ones ! The library floppies DON'T take software !

[Elmbeatz]

Looks like you need the 3.1 software....

Hi Dr. C!

Why would the EII not boot with older OS disks? Does the EII's Eprom NEED 3.1 disks?!
(My EII boots with different OS versions, as I've got some disks with OS prior than 3.1...f*ck overlay errors though   ...)

Greetz,
Elm.


EDIT: Is it because it is a "+" model? Mine is standard..

[PJ-GOTH]

after 3 hours of work i tested some diskettes and nothing is happen.
so with my friend (is a great electronic technic) we open the Emulator and we see that the eprom was the series 1.8

we wrote another eprom and we upgraded that in 3.1

but nothing happened again.

when i plug in the emulator he ask me the floppy, i put the floppy, then he recognize the Software Version : 3.0 but he doesn't upload the banks and the sounds...

please help me!
thanks again!

[PJ-GOTH]

i forgot.
when i put the diskette he started again to load and it stops after 3 times (da da da )
then the display says : Emu Emulator 2 Software 3.0.
then nothing....

[dr.c]

Okay... it seems like you have a communication problem between the main and scanner.

Firts thing to do, this happenend to me hundreds of times (litterally, I was the service manager of E-Mu in France for 15 years) :

Your frien will understand if I make it short :

When the solder is efective on the Molex connector on the power supply, this happens.

Take off the PSU, check the soldering under the power supply at the Molex connector, take away the solder, scratch the cvarnish off the tracks in order to have a bigger soldering surface and resolder.

Look at the wires going to the Molex connector, the yellow contact may be browned or even burned.
Take it off, clean it, out it back.

NEVER POWER THE MACHINE WITHOUT ANY LOAD ON THE POWER SUPPLY, IT WILL BLOW !


Let me know.

[PJ-GOTH]

thanks again for your answer. we'll try to do this this night at last tomorrow. i will keep you update soon.
thank you
PJ

[PJ-GOTH]

hi Dr-C my friend already finished (thanks a lot Roby!!) to do the operation you suggested us but without any results.. (all the soldering was good and the yellow cable in good condiction)

the Emulator do the same problem

I can specify better:
I plug in the Emualtor. the 2 floppy drive start flashing in yellow light and the display tell me to insert the diskette.

then i plug in the diskette into the drive and it start to load for 3 times (da da da) then it stops and the diplay said Emulator 2 Software Re. 3.0.

then it stop to load everything and the floppy driver light is off.

the emulator is not operative too,...

thanks again
wait for your precious answer
Pj

[dr.c]

Did you contact the poeple who sold it to you ?
Maybe there is a "trick", a disquette somewhere...

[dr.c]

What do you really mean by : "we wrote another eprom and we upgraded that in 3.1" ?

[PJ-GOTH]

for the Eprom:
we took the Binary Files with the images from the 2.1 version of the Main Eprom and the 3.1 for the Scanner Eprom than we programmed a 2 ne Eprom to change the otiginal ones. the original ones version was 1.8 for both Eprom.

About the diskettes: i bought the Emulator from Germany (a shop from Germany) and they sold me like faulty (they said that they was some problems with the display..but it's not true because the display works) with the Emulator they sent to me like 30 diskettes but i think they didn't tested this diskette because it was faulty..

thanks again for your reply...wait for a new one!
PJ and Roby

[PJ-GOTH]

i mean i think they disn't test the Emu with this diskettes because it was "broke"

[esynthesist]

Did you check the diagnostics manual ?
http://www.emulatorarchive.com/assets/PDF/EII%20Diagnostics%20Manual.pdf