Express 96

Anyone know any way to get a show off a Express 48/96 with a dead disk drive and a printer port that doesn't work?

 

I would look at replacing the drive, they are just standard floppy drive available from anywhere or any old PC laying around.

 

Not via midi, but you could probably sync two consoles over ETCNet. The Express supports Net1

 

The disk drive is definetly bad...working fine one minute...not recognizing disks an hour later...whether it was the same one or a new one...gave me the old "There is no disk in the drive" message....

Printer port is a different story...the printer may have been bad but I had to leave before the problem was completly rectified....hopefully today they're trying another printer

What about an Expression 3? Does it have a DMX capture?

 

Nope...namely because I didn't want to lose the changes I'd made...If I get the opportunity I will...

 

na... they never help anyone....








of course call them! they are some of the best in the business when it comes to support.

 

Been there done that. They said exactly what I've told you all...disk drive needs to be fixed.

Because I'm easily offendable () earlier in the thread I mentioned that the drive was working fine, and that the same disk I'd saved on an hour before no longer worked.

But yes of course its double sided high density...

 

In the olden days we used to have ditto masters with channel numbers across the top and little boxes underneath where we'd write "0, 01, ... 50 ... FF." It was my job to read the screen and write in the little boxes, only in pencil! I found that making the blank match the screen (20 across, 25 across, whatever) made it easier for everyone.

Today, I'd suggest starting an empty show in ExpressionOffLine, http://www.etcconnect.com/downloads.asp and start entering numbers. It goes fairly quickly if one person reads while one person types. (My favorite lighting game used to be to have someone read the softpatch from the Dimmer Schedule to me as I typed, and see how fast we could do it, accurately. I know, get a life!) But first, make sure your PC has a working floppy drive. At least then you'll only have to deal with the data once.

Not what you wanted to hear, I suspect.

 

In this case, isn't that akin to shooting oneself in the "private regions"? Does a deep clear not erase the current show and reset the desk to factory defaults?

 

Around here what you're describing is referred to as "impact maintenance." Often the neckdowns will do it for us without being asked, and whether the item in question needs it or not. "Preventative impact maintenance," I suppose. I like that, I'm going to use it the next time I fall victim to a "gravity storm." I usually say "heads up" out of habit when I drop a colorframe while standing on the floor. My brain can't process fast enough to say "feet up," and that sounds ridiculous anyhow.