Yamaha AW4416 problems

[DSA]

Hi,

 

As I have said before school have got an Aw4416 (Yamaha) in their new studio. However someone was in there the other day, and got to 'copying' a song. I came in, and he admitted that he didnt know what he was doing, and it appeared to have crashed. The only way to rectify it was to turn the mixer off at the mains....

 

However on 'rebooting', the machine started up as normal, 'initialised the mixer section' and loaded the song data up to 100%, as normal, and then froze. It has done this ever since...

 

I posted on an AW4416 forum, but people seem reluctant to post, as it were, so I thought I would try here! (just in case you can help). I am really stuck now, I cant believe that that may have bust the expensive machine; I hope that it can be fixed.

 

Anyhow, the one person that did reply said that the HD was probably corrupt - he said that it had happened to him, in the same way. He took it out and put it in a laptop and did a 'low-level' format on it. He then says that he replaced it in the AW4416 and it asked him if he wanted to format the disk, after doing that it apparantly worked.

 

So what I ask is - would this be the right thing to do?? Even if it is, the connector seems different to that in the laptop and PC of the chap who cut off the supply.

 

Should this be different, or how is it connected?

 

Any ideas please!!!! I really need to get this sorted - Yamaha support want serial no. and date of purchase etc. before they will answer - which I personally dont have!

 

Thanks a lot,

David

 

P.S. Any more questions if this isnt clear, please ask.

[Matt]

well in the laptop it would be a 2.5 inch ide drive, you can get adapters from maplins for about £10 I think, they arent bad, just means you can connect it to the larger 3.5inch drives you find in pc's etc.... (works both ways).

 

I have had similar problems with just windows, though I dunno if it would apply to this, but when I get a logon problem or it says some load up files are corrupt, I stick it in another machine and run a scandisk which picks up errors and fixes them, have done it a few times now, been successful.

 

but if you aint sure, I'd say wait for some other replies or get in touch with yamaha customer support over the phone

 

Matt.