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I resolved by replacing the floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator. First I had to instal a convertor, found on eBay SFR1M44-U100K, floppy belt Matsushita EME 216KR adapter. About £35 shipped from Germany. This converted the flat blade cable to a pc type connector plus power connection. Then the ...

Thanks I appreciate that. I’ll go have a look for an adapter. Looks like it would allow me to fit a floppy emulator too.

Did you get anywhere with this? I have same issue with an iX300.

Alan

Hi everyone, the floppy drive on my iX300 reported “no disk in drive”. When I opened it up I found the drive belt had perished. I found a flat belt that fitted. I had to remove the logic board so I could get the belt pass the sensor. After that I again tried to format a disk. It ran for a few sec ...

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Chip replaced all working.

Now have a good spare amp board



Alan

So when the scope arrived I found good signals on audo left and right and same on the headphone paths. On the speaker paths I could trace the right audio from R74 through the EQ chip into the amp chip and out to the connector CN6, but the left speaker signal stopped at R75. I have now removed the ...

So I managed to get hold of a replacement Amp Board but the vendor advised that it was only producing sound on one speaker. I installed it and sure enough only right hand side speaker is working. However both Audio Out channels are working and left and right headphones are good. Looking at the ...

Ouch! The bad news, as you've already found out, is that replacement boards aren't available from Korg or Korg parts stockists, although it might be worth searching eBay from time to time for spares. An entire SP250 was recently sold for less than the list price of a replacement board. The good ...

Hi, can anyone please help? I bought a Korg SP250 on Ebay sold as no power parts only. It was in great condition, used as a church piano, looks like new. I opened it up and was surprised to find the amp board was badly damaged. I think someone has yanked the keyboard off its stand while the audio ...