Replaced Caps in Emu 1820 but No POWER

[Khron]

Re: Replaced Caps in Emu 1820 but No POWER

8mm diameter Nichicon PA: http://media.digikey.com/Photos/Nich...ries%208mm.jpg

Various (genuine) Nichicons: http://ventnorbeach.smugmug.com/Elec.../IMG1295-M.jpg

[stj]

Re: Replaced Caps in Emu 1820 but No POWER

DO NOT WASTE your time on soldering irons below 100/140 watts. That's my shoot from the hip advice.

dont post shit like that - it will lead to people destroying things.

people need a TEMPERATURE REGULATED iron.
50-80w is more than enough as long as you can program the temperature.

[BowieLives]

Everything in my previous post was correct except for the BEST EMU DRIVER COMBO! I passed on an "expert" review of drivers for the Emu 1820m and it gave the WRONG COMBO. So, here are the Best Emu 1820m Drivers in 2018 for Windows 7 64bit:

EmuPMX_PCApp_US_2_20_00-from-1616m.rar (Correct version!)
EmuPMX_PCDrv_2_30-Beta-Win7-64-from-1820m.rar (Correct version!)
Both files are about 29mb when in rar form.

I'll keep them up for a while here: http://TheGuy.com/Emu/
I have lots of useful info there on the Emu 1820m.

Elsewhere, someone named Nana erroneously recommends an Emu 1820m driver combo that caused me big trouble!
EmuPMX_PCApp_L6_2_10_00.exe + (wrong version!)
EmuPMX_PCDrv_US_2_30_00_BETA.exe

You want instead:
EmuPMX_PCApp_US_2_20_00.exe + (Notice the 2-20!) (Correct version!)
EmuPMX_PCDrv_US_2_30_00_BETA.exe (Correct version!)


I've been using the 1820m for a decade+. EmuPMX_PCApp_L6_2_10_00.exe worked at first, but began to be attended by intermittent audio failure and needless heartache. That combo pits the latest beta Emu PCDrv driver with an older PCApp PatchMix version regression. The Beta is much newer and needs a newer patchmix version. Nana's combo caused general windows audio freezes and recording in Reaper and Cubase tended to fail quickly. HOWEVER, the latest 1616m Patchmix app is MUCH newer and has been tested far more on Windows 7 architecture. Use it: it WORKS GREAT with the Emu 1820m on Windows 7 64 with the 1820m beta driver. I've posted the right driver and app here for download. http://TheGuy.com/Emu/

On the page, look at the folder comparison of dates for the latest 1820m Patchmix vs the latest 1616m Patchmix. YEARS newer. I've been running the latest 1820m Beta driver (can't find it on Emu anymore) with the latest 1616m PatchMix app. I've hit Cubase, Reaper and all kinds of Firefox/Chrome Video playback and played many videos at once, even while Reaper and Cubase were open. NO PROBLEMS YET.

With Nana's setup I could do none of this very long without crashing, especially as the days progressed on an install. I was constantly reinstalling the PCDriv, which fixed things, for a while. Nana's combo was not sustainable. I spent a year of my life scratching my head at why my new windows install had buggy audio AND video and even firefox was affected, since content relies so heavily on audio these days.

The driver zip file mentioned above contains the combo I recommend, the one that works very well indeed: 1820m Beta Drv + latest 1616m PcApp (meaning PatchMix).

You can get some of the latest 1820m and 1616m stuff below. But you will NOT find the 1820m Beta Driver anymore. At least I could not find it on Emu's website.

http://www.emu.com/index.php/support-e-mu-1616m-pcie#latest-downloads
http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=237&prodID=9871

By the way, the two infamous "Bad capacitors" did fail on two of my Emu 1820m's. But I bought some Nichicon caps off Ebay, pulled the bad, soldered in the good and Voila! Like new! I posted about that journey here: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=135850

Some sad I bought fake Nichicons. Well, two years later the Emu 1820m, both of them, are still working like new!

I hope if we keep the 1820m going, they will do a REISSUE of this gem!

Happy Recording!

[Snatchman]

Re: Replaced Caps in Emu 1820 but No POWER

I just realized I had disabled the device in Win7 Device Manager. Once re-enabled, the lights and power are ON! Now...I presume it will work at full function. I'll post an update, but I think the 'ol replace the 2 bulging caps is once again a viable wonderful way to keep these babies, which can't be replaced for under 700.00, going for another 10 years :-) Thank you all!

Hello..I'm new here and looking forward to learning..I see you have the 1820m and in this post, I'm having the same problems you had..How do you know what device that's on/off in Device Manager in Win 7..? I want to check and see if this is what's causing my 1820m Dock not to power up..Just had caps replaced..Thanks..!

[Khron]

Re: Replaced Caps in Emu 1820 but No POWER

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