timtheenchanteruk Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 googled and searched the blue room till Im blue in the face, now getting thoroughly irritated. How do you edit the fixture library on the 520i?? We can load it up to see it, just cant seem to edit it, any button pressed on the keyboard gives us a beep back, is there something obvious we are missing?? this is the first time we have needed to edit it, everything else has always been there... HELP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Shut the console down. When it gets to the "power down" screen press Ctrl-X to get a DOS prompt. Copy the FIXTURE.LIB file from C:\220OS to a floppy and edit it with Notepad on a PC. Save it back to the floppy and copy it back to the desk. Reboot. Done! Can't explain why your keyboard is beeping at you, though ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timtheenchanteruk Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 cheers, it wont let us into dos either. they keyboard seems ok, it will type in other areas, just not the fixture lib. also tried the ctrl-break way of getting into dos, that just stops the desk booting at all... A concurrent post has been automatically merged from this point on. just a thought, is there a way of locking the fixture lib? the desk is ex-university.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 No, there's no way of locking a specific file. Will the desk take input from the keyboard if you're in the Notes display without a config file loaded from the desk? i.e. just the regular 'NOTES' page. What do you mean when you say the desk "won't let you into DOS"? If you shut the desk down and wait until you get the shutdown screen with the Strand logo, and hit Ctrl-X, do you not get the DOS prompt? Try Ctrl-C as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timtheenchanteruk Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 yes, can type normal into the notes page, as well as some of the other config pages, just not the fixture lib. A concurrent post has been automatically merged from this point on. nope, no prompt, im confused, and pulling my hair out, tried ctrl and every letter, just sits on the "you can now switch off power" screen A concurrent post has been automatically merged from this point on. gone through everything, and can write to everything except the fixture lib.... can copy out of it, but cant paste in (earlier thought was write it in notes then copy/paste accross A concurrent post has been automatically merged from this point on. Last bit.... just noticed, as you go into the fixture lib, the desk bips, and "buffer full" is displayed very briefly in the notes bar, it doesnt do this on opening anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadhippy Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 I found it easier to get into DOS when starting the console,hit ctrl and c once you see any signs of strand life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timtheenchanteruk Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 yay, Ctrl C on boot worked, confused even more, because it put the dos on the other VGA output (that we dont have a screen on) edited...done, THANKYOU.... now to get the colourbricks working..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strand600X Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Not sure if Gareth would agree or not but it seems to me that you may need to do a "220clean" on the desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resinmatt Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 When you were trying to enter dos the first time was the screen going blank or was the console just ignoring your input?If blank could it be that the VDU port being used by the dos system is not the output you have a monitor in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Not sure if Gareth would agree or not but it seems to me that you may need to do a "220clean" on the desk.Well, it can't hurt. It might even help. But what bugs me is the 'knee-jerk' reaction that some people seem to have in leaping straight in and suggesting a 220CLEAN as some sort of panacean solution to every possible problem. "The milk tastes a bit funny this morning ...""Just run a 220CLEAN, that'll sort it ...":huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timtheenchanteruk Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 When you were trying to enter dos the first time was the screen going blank or was the console just ignoring your input?If blank could it be that the VDU port being used by the dos system is not the output you have a monitor in? just ignored key input, stayed on the "safe to turn off" screen, did occur after finding the other vdu port dos on start it might have been that. might run the clean tomorrow, or next week, now we have the fixture edit sorted (in a way) just need to get it to play with the chroma Q blocks...we can get it to output if we use it on "dimmer" channels, but doesnt want to play as a fixture.. see here if anyone can help... like I said before, the other fixtures we have used were already in the library, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strand600X Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Not sure if Gareth would agree or not but it seems to me that you may need to do a "220clean" on the desk.Well, it can't hurt. It might even help. But what bugs me is the 'knee-jerk' reaction that some people seem to have in leaping straight in and suggesting a 220CLEAN as some sort of panacean solution to every possible problem. "The milk tastes a bit funny this morning ...""Just run a 220CLEAN, that'll sort it ...":huh: Sorry Gareth I didn't mean to get that kind of reaction, but it has been known to kill all known germs. Well it can't harm. I'm sorry I will remember to be more constructive in the future. bAz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 It wasn't a dig at you, Baz. Just an observation that 220CLEAN isn't quite the cure-all that some people seem to think it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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