HOG 500: Cold Restart without loading shows... HELP

[Franklinscott57]

I recently got a hog 500 console as is. When I tuned it on the machine does a cold restart with no saved showfile or fixture library saved on it. When I got the fixture libraries from JANDS the machine had trouble loading those into memory. I'm hoping that loading a showfile into memory will give me a point to jump off testing the machine.

I don't have a hog 500 or 1000 showfile to try and load into the machine for testing. Does anyone know where I can find a hog 500 or 1000 showfile? Or does anyone happen to have one they could send me to use?

 

[TimMiller]

Normally when that happens it is due to the CMOS battery being dead. What you can try doing is downloading hog2pc and creating a show and save it on a floppy and load it to the console. The disk drives do go bad on these consoles as they get older, though sometimes it is the floppy disk itself.