emusonacid! legacy

Does anyone know anything about installing the D-WAM option? I sold someone my D-WAM and had no idea the AES RCVR ( PAL ) chip was needed to make it work. I bought mine with the D-WAM installed so I didn't know the thing need a chip update to install, the RFX is plug and go so I thought the DWAM would be too. Does anyone know where you can buy a PAL chip?! I'd send him the one in my sampler but it looks to be soldered in?! Does this sound right or is there a way to remove it without taking out the motherboard and unsoldering it? I have to get this sorted and it's frustrating me .. I cannot find any info anywhere online about installing the D-WAM and the PAL Chip

I thought the DWAM was a seperate board that you install into the sampler that gave you two extra midi ins and out and some other things.
Atleast, that is how mine was. I bought it so I could use a keyboard to type stuff into the emu instead of using the face plate buttons.

Unless I am missing something.

snh

Yes extra MIDI and Keyboard control plus AES EBU and Word Clock. Did you have to install a PAL chip (microchip) with yours? Or did you just "plug and go" with yours (just plug it into the coresponding slots and screw it to the chasis) ?

The guy's saying I should have sent him the PAL chip but that doesn't seem right; mine ( PAL Chip ) was soldered to the motherboard so I don't see how E-MU would have expected anyone who bought the D-WAM option to just pop out their Ultra's motherboard and solder the chip in place.... Just does not seem right ...

I'm wondering if he has a regular E-6400 not an Ultra and it's not working because he bought it thinking it would just work whereas I clearly stated that it was for an ULTRA series in my auction .... Just want to make sure I give him the right info before I email him and tell him that either he's plugged it in wrong and/or he bought the wrong D-WAM for an earlier sampler.

Anyone ?

I tried taking the DWAM out of my E4XT Ultra and installing into my E6400 Ultra and it would not work. When I compared the 2 motherboards the E4XT had a chip and the E6400 had an empty slot, they looked different. It didn't look to me like the chip was removable and I could find no way of taking it out. I suspect there are 2 options, a factory install where the chip is built into the motherboard and an upgrade option where the chip is installed later.

F%@#
I don't know what to do... the guys pissed because I didn't send him the chip, but the chip is soldered to my board and if this was the case (the 2 versions) then I don't know what to tell him except I can't take the chip out of mine because mine was an XT as well ....

If these guys don't have the chip no one will: http://www.eprelectronics.com/

Right on ... Thanks, I'll look into it.

The DWAM I have worked with my Emu E 5000 ultra with no PAL Chip.. so not sure. Is it ultra specific?

snh

That's what I figured when I sold it, it seemed like it should just plug into any other Ultra sampler. I bought an E4XT Ultra used and sold the DWAM because I didn't use it.... I figured since the RFX card and ADAT peripherals just showed up when plugging them in or unplugging them, the DWAM would be the same, just show up after re-booting as it seems like EOS basically has all the peripheral drivers just written into the OS... hmm. I'll have to call EPR and see what they say.. thanks again..

I got an answer from EPR .....

There is definitely a difference between the Platinum versions than the Ultra...

The deal is I bought a 6400 Ultra on Ebay that the guy had sent to E-MU a few years back and had expanded to I believe Platinum Status, maybe E4XT Ultra status... I sold the peripherals because didn't need them etc...

Anyway according to EPR, the Platinum boards generally do have the PAL chips soldered to the board because they didn't generally need any upgrade peripherals.

The 5000 and 6400 Ultras do need PAL chips for some, not all options. The guy at EPR was really cool, he looked at the inside of an E6400 Ultra while I was on the phone and said they do indeed have sockets for the chips, they aren't soldered right on. So if anyone else does run into this problem, that's the deal, you definitely need both an in and an out PAL chip for the AES/EBU to work on them.

I also asked him about the crashes that other people had mentioned where the LCD comes on and then goes blank and all the red LEDs get stuck on and the machine hangs at startup... He says it can be a power supply OR there are also areas where some of the chips have poor solder joints so there is an intermittence...