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), which is similar to F2 on a PC computer, to go the the CMOS screen.
Not so, for some very strange reason on my keyboard now. I have NO idea on how to gain control over my synth, to even try and do a hard reset. 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.
Strangely enough, the opening sequence of the Kurzweil 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 numerica keypad to do a soft reset, but that just causes the above to start all over again, with the system locking up midway through, again.
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), which is similar to F2 on a PC computer, to go the the CMOS screen.
Not so, for some very strange reason on my keyboard now. I have NO idea on how to gain control over my synth, to even try and do a hard reset. 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.
Strangely enough, the opening sequence of the Kurzweil 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 numerica keypad to do a soft reset, but that just causes the above to start all over again, with the system locking up midway through, again.
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
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