Re: Kawai K5 upgrade ROMs

Howdy,

 Yes,I've openedthe synth. The connections around the
wheel area look good upon cursory examination. i'll
have to inspect more closeley. How do I get sounds
back into the machine? It only has one and every sound
on the disply is identical. It has one dead key and 4
slugish ones, but I don't think I'l have any problem
fixing that. My main issue is the wheel and lack of
mulyiple sounds. Plus, I would like to upgrade the
system to a later version just for the heck of it. I
don't know if the lithium battery went dead and was
relaced or not, but the present one is a solid3+ volts
and looks faily new. Any chance the battery died and
lost all the firmware/ THANX!!!
Rig


--- Antoine Deschênes <antdes45-FFYn/[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, the K5SINGLE thing is normal if the synth was
> reset by the seller 
> or you, but not the dead wheel.
> 
> I'm not sure the EPROM will help since the wheel
> just doesn't work in 
> your case, which is a problem I never saw with V1.0
> K5s, and you even 
> said that you reset the synth. Have you already
> opened the synth(There 
> are two screws going in the cover on each sides that
> need to be 
> removed)? Could you make sure that the wheel is well
> connected to the 
> board at the right? Some solders and wires could be
> cracked/broken too, 
> the one under the LCD panel for example.
> 
> Antoine
> 
> bill bigrig a écrit :
> > Howdy,
> >
> >  As you probably already know, my k5 came DOA. It
> only
> > displays k5single on ALL the presets and the
> whirly
> > wheel does nothing when trying to alter midi
> stuff.
> > The battery is a healthy 3.05 volts, but it only
> plays
> > one sound. I think the place to start is with a
> new
> > eprom. Please let me know about cost and payment
> > method. Thanx
> > Rig
> >
> >
> > --- antdes45 <antdes45-FFYn/[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hi everyone, new updates about the ROM upgrades.
> >>
> >> I got the chip last week and successfully
> programmed
> >> one of them a few
> >> minutes ago. It's in one of my K5s and it's
> working.
> >> (Which means I'll
> >> be able to order all the chips shortly) Any new
> ROM
> >> requests are still
> >> accepted.
> >>
> >> The other chip I ordered for my 2nd K5, for some
> >> reason, got killed by
> >> the programmer, burning two transistors on the
> >> programmer itself at
> >> the same time. I suspect that it's caused by the
> >> computer that I
> >> initially tried to program the chip with, it was
> >> probably sending
> >> strange commands on the parallel port due to the
> >> crippled HP printer
> >> drivers. All I know is that I will not try
> >> programming ROMs anymore on
> >> that computer.
> >>
> >> Antoine, Moderator.
> >>     
> 



       
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