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 13 March, 2004
 

ESI-32 : Diagnostics (Magic Mode)

Diagnostics and Trims The ESI is a complex electronic instrument. Luckily E-mu Systems have provided a diagnostic mode within the Operating System to help troubleshooting, when something goes wrong. However be VERY careful using these functions, some can cripple your sampler and mean a trip to the service cente.

Enter The Magic Code To get to the diagnostic routines you need to go into the MASTER module and enter 8. In the SPECIAL module enter 0, and the LCD will display:

           DIAGNOSTICS
             Enter MagicCode

           Enter numeric 1358.

The display will now show:

             DIAGNOSTICS
             Select a Submodule

PLEASE be very careful with these tests - some are DESTRUCTIVE to your sample data !!

Diagnostic Submodules There are 10 submodules that can be selected and exited in the normal way, except the Panel Test which needs enter pushing twice.

# Name Comments 0 Panel/Keybd Test Checks out every front panel button and the LCD 1 RAM Test Checks out the CPU and sample RAM, this takes a long time ! 2 Serial Test Tests the MIDI ports 3 Jack DetectionTest Tests the submix output jack 4 Effects RAM test Checks out the turbo FX chip 5 Verify/Initialize EEprom Resets the EEPROM to factory defaults after verifying 6 Init Digital I/O Resets digital I/O 7 Sinewave Test Emits a 1kHz or 19kHz test signal 8 AutoTest Tests CPU RAM, G-chip, sound RAM and hard drive.This test destroys all hard disk data !!! 9 Disk Diagnostics Checks out the floppy and hard disk drive with a variety of tests