EIII Troubles (E-mu Emulator III)

[kruz]

Hello people..
Few days ago i finally had the needed time to clean and assemble back my EIII.
I remember that it was working 100% .. not now
Beside that i hear some high pitched noise from the stereo output (not yet checked the individual outs) and that when i try to sample, i see the VU always at full scale, i have troubles with most of the controls.. the keyboard is not sending any midi data out (probably is not sending any data internally, haven't yet had the luck to hear a sample), the sliders and the wheels seems to not work either.. i've done the recalibrate procedure but when i do that, i can't see any value changes when i move the controls.. the LCD, the ledss and the buttons on the control board are all working.
I'm sure that all the internal cables are at their own places correctly.. i
really can't think of anything easy to repair.
When i cleaned all the boards, i've handled them with extreme cure and also pushed all the chips in their sockets.
Any idea?
Thank you all..

 

[chrissugar]

Maybe you killed the sensitive chips with static discharge :?:

Disasamble it again and check everything.

chrissugar

 

[Steffen]

sorry to hear this :-(

can you enter diagnostics mode?

1. Activate the Master module.
2. Select Submodule 8 (Special).
3. Move the data slider up to show the last choice.
4. Use the keypad and type in one number past the last choice. For example: if the last
numbered choice was 7, you would type in8.
5. The display will say: DIAGNOSTICS, Enter Magic Code.
6. The magic code for EIII diagnostics is 1-3-5-8. A good way to remember this number
is to recall that 1-3-5-8 = Major chord.

(copied and pasted it from the RAM module install pdf)

steff