EII having problems freezing up.

[liquidzen]

Hello... I am trying to help a friend on this one. He's got an EII that boots up by freezes. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks.

[rokuez]

maybe some more details would help some of the EII helpers here.

please describe the sequence of events that occurs in detail so that someone can help pinpoint your error in the startup procedure.  I would number what happens to help someone  determine during what stage the problem is occuring.

[liquidzen]

It only happens on occasion... I'll be well into sampling, editing or mapping when a note I am playing freezes and so does everything on the top panel. If I power down and power up, I can start fresh and the problem boes not occur again... until many days later. Also... When I got the EII... two keys did not trigger. I opened the EII, disconnected the keybed, removed the rubber trigger pads... cleaned the sensors and ruber pads and assembled it back. That fixed the two keys, but now thre other different ones do not trigger... what fun.

[Elmbeatz]

really strange...

One of my EIIs had several bugs when I got him (but the keyboard was fine). It was a pain, but I decided to pull out, clean, and reseat every chip inside the EII.

Afterwards it was like new.

[sheever]

hey Guys,

i am new here...
I had a luck to buying Emu 2+..
but same this freezing problem...sometimes after every single switching off and on.same problem.
i reconnect the wires,cleanet and ok till the next.
the main problem what i cannot figured out,emu havent got a sounds just few days ago...only pukks and analogue noises when i try to playing on it.
can anybody help?i wish take care of it and keep it in the future so would be great any opinion!
i can send that noise which come from the sampler if its help....
thanks!

[Elmbeatz]

Hi Guys!

One of my EIIs freezes after some time of being powered on (lets say after appx. 30 minutes).
Any ideas about what could help?

Greetz,
Elm.

[Elmbeatz]

Anybody?   

[n.flanders]

Hi Elm,

have you already tried to interchange the ram ics with others from another segment? Does it run the memory test disk at all?

regards

ned

[n.flanders]

...i mean the ram ics of the FIRST segment.

[Elmbeatz]

Today, I did the "press-all-ics-procedure" and the bastard ran and ran and ran.
just like a volkswagen.   

great sound again.

[Futureman]

It's Amazing how many faults in the E2 can be fixed by just reseating IC's

[Elmbeatz]

It's Amazing how many faults in the E2 can be fixed by just reseating IC's

I don't know...   sometimes I get the feeling that just opening the thing does help...