timtheenchanteruk Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 OK, not having much luck with this at the moment.Having sorted out the bios issue in my last posting, now we have what seems to be a more serious issue.Tried to update the fixture list last night (wasn't me) and now the desk will not boot at all.we can get it to boot into DOS, tried the 220clean, no luck.There is no disc in the drive when trying to boot. after the strand splash screen all we get is a dos screen with vaious garb on it, at the end, cannot continue ERROR00000004HTried googling for the error, to no avail.If you leave it a while, say about 5 mins you get another errorcannot read from c:\ file system may be corrupt or damaged would I be right in thinking that the HDD is goosed, or is is possible that loading the fixture library in through dos has managed to make a mess of the OS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanhill Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Have you tried re-installing the OS and additions? To get the right number of channels back you will need to have the password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono9691 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 DUDE!?!!...............................Perfect time to convince the powers that be to upgrade :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadhippy Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Have you got the password saved?could try a dos startup disc to boot from,then check the contents of the hard drive (dir c:/w to list the files and chkdsk c: to check the hard drive ),if youve got the password and anything else you want copyed somewere safe then could try fromating c drive and copy the system files over (format c: /s) then reinstalling the strand software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timtheenchanteruk Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 Everything is saved and backed up, so will give that a try, I have a few (new and used) HDD on standby.Things will be on hold for a few days, had to do an emergency hire for the show we have in tomorrow (its being plotted as I type)Upgrading would be nice, but the desk is owned by us, so getting it back up and running would be great. Somthing else has just also fallen into place as well. just before xmas we had a show on, during the first half, we lost DMX2 and all the lights on it.having looked into it, DMX2 is as dead as a dodo.having got the LED PARs out, every single one is also dead, some will power on but not respond to DMX, some are compleatly dead, it seems something, somewhere in that chain has developed a fault and completely goosed everything else in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDLX Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Were they connected directly to DMX2 on the 520? I suspect these two incidents might be linked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timtheenchanteruk Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 yes, thats kinda what I was getting at (although reading back, rather ineloquently) Irritatingly, had we used the splitter as normal, the desk (or lights) would have been fine, but as we only had 10 LED pars on the one chain, we didnt bother . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 That must be rather frustrating...!Maybe an idea for next time and all that :)At least (well, the way I'm reading your posts) they're your LED pars, so you don't have anyone else hounding you for the repair of their gear while you also have to sort out a dead console... David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timtheenchanteruk Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 yes, their all ours, dead pars, and all.the pars are only just a squeeze over 12months old, so if I find any stray bits floating around inside, I'll be getting in touch with the company we bought them from to see if they are willing to do anything with the pars at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrV Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 If you do manage to get the disk and OS sorted out (and I think the advice you've been given so far is correct) then you might want to check out this thread which covers sorting out a dead DMX2 Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianknight Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 If you have someone who's sort of computer aware, google for a DOS 6 boot image for floppy based system - if memory serves (and it's been a while) you should be able to create a bootable DOS floppy to get the desk up and booted. You can then backup the password files or if you're really clever connect one of the new HD's as a slave to the desk's drive - put a bootable DOS on there and then copy the 220OS directory across along with your show files. Remove the existing HD - link the new drive as master and voila - a bootable 520. The position of the password file on the HD isn't critical because it's a soft key rather than an encrypted key so ordinary DOS copy or XXcopy should do the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithh Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Hi , Re your Dead 520 If you contact me on the following number I may be able to talk you through your problem >>07860 584351 << Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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