Toddskins
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Shoot... i've had my first glitch with my synthesizer, a Kurzweil K2500.
During a routine upload, via a floppy, of a MIDI song, somehow my startup in the System CMOS got corrupted.
Usually, just like in a PC, you can exit the startup and gain control of the boot sequence by clicking on a button (Exit, on my Kurzweil), which is similar to F2 (Setup) on a PC computer, to go the the CMOS screen.
Not so, for some very strange reason on my keyboard now. The Exit button is not showing up and I have NO idea on how to gain control over my synth, to even try and do a hard reset (a function after starting up has finished to clear all memory). It's like, locked up in the middle of the boot sequence.
So, what do you do when you have no control over your synthesizer? How do you do a harder, hard reset? If I take the lid off (I have done that many times and am fairly comfortable tinkering around the electronics - i installed an effects board myself and had a friend help me recalibrate the voltage).... how would a technician go about getting the system restored so that it will boot up properly? I have no idea on how to proceed. Is there a way?
Strangely enough, the opening sequence of the Kurzweil synth right now, does in fact show the initial stages of a routine startup, including the display of the latest Operating System... but then the LCD goes solid blue light and remains lit, with the Hard Drive whirling, but nothing else happening.
I can even use the numeric keypad to do a soft reset (clicking 3 buttons simultaneously), but that just causes the above to start all over again, with the system locking up midway through, again. My startup is somehow corrupted. Argh!
Any ideas at all, you techie people out there?
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I just got an Email from a fellow Kurzweil user who suggested I take out the batteries for an hour which may cause all the P-RAM to be lost, thus allowing me to get ahold of the bootup sequence, or hard reset, again. I hope this works. I'll post a note in here, if that works.
Todd
During a routine upload, via a floppy, of a MIDI song, somehow my startup in the System CMOS got corrupted.
Usually, just like in a PC, you can exit the startup and gain control of the boot sequence by clicking on a button (Exit, on my Kurzweil), which is similar to F2 (Setup) on a PC computer, to go the the CMOS screen.
Not so, for some very strange reason on my keyboard now. The Exit button is not showing up and I have NO idea on how to gain control over my synth, to even try and do a hard reset (a function after starting up has finished to clear all memory). It's like, locked up in the middle of the boot sequence.
So, what do you do when you have no control over your synthesizer? How do you do a harder, hard reset? If I take the lid off (I have done that many times and am fairly comfortable tinkering around the electronics - i installed an effects board myself and had a friend help me recalibrate the voltage).... how would a technician go about getting the system restored so that it will boot up properly? I have no idea on how to proceed. Is there a way?
Strangely enough, the opening sequence of the Kurzweil synth right now, does in fact show the initial stages of a routine startup, including the display of the latest Operating System... but then the LCD goes solid blue light and remains lit, with the Hard Drive whirling, but nothing else happening.
I can even use the numeric keypad to do a soft reset (clicking 3 buttons simultaneously), but that just causes the above to start all over again, with the system locking up midway through, again. My startup is somehow corrupted. Argh!
Any ideas at all, you techie people out there?
- - - - - - - - - - - -
I just got an Email from a fellow Kurzweil user who suggested I take out the batteries for an hour which may cause all the P-RAM to be lost, thus allowing me to get ahold of the bootup sequence, or hard reset, again. I hope this works. I'll post a note in here, if that works.
Todd
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