Posted by Allan In NE on November 14, 2010 at 07:17:21 from (148.66.98.174):
Oh Man!
This has been my month for electronic troubles! :>(
Problem: OLD (20 years) Roland guitar synthesizer, when I powered up the other morning, got a message that the CMOS battery was dead.
Okay, fine. I run to town and get another CR2032 battery. But, like the dummy I am, I didn't power the thing up before I made the switch.
Now, all I have is gobblety-gook on the screen. Lost all the settings and this little guy is totally lost!
This thing is nothing more than a dedicated-use motherboard, but is so old that it has no user re-inilization feature.
Seems to me that I used to fix those old modules (electric pianos and sound modules) by lifting the IC chips out and then reinserting so that they would then go search for the original BIOS settings from the BIOS chip on power up.
They would then fire up just like the day they left the factory.
Make sense?
Really don�t wanna send this thing back to the factory or buy another; they still fetch $300 used. :>(
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