Edirol CG-8 Repair Guide: Difference between revisions

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The Edirol CG-8 is a "visual synthesiser" made by Roland in 2005.

Overview

Inside the Edirol CG-8

Hardware

VIA EPIA M Motherboard

The CG-8 uses a VIA EPIA M mini ITX PC motherboard produced in the early to mid-2000s. It uses the VIA CLE266 chipset and comes with 512MB RAM in its single UDIMM memory slot and a 2.5in 40Gb hard drive, connected via IDE. The Retro Web provides comprehensive information about the board and notes that - like many computers of its era - it is prone to "faulty or leaking electrolytic capacitors".

VIA EPIA-M at The Retro Web

512Mb RAM

The RAM is in the form of a single 512Mb DDR UDIMM PC2100. According to the user manual, the motherboard has a maximum RAM size of 1GB.

40Gb Hard Drive

Software

Diagnostics

Before doing any work on the CG-8 you should back up and clone the internal hard drive.* It is strongly recommended that you don't do any diagnostic work with your original hard drive in place.

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	Before doing any work on the CG-8 you should back up and clone the internal hard drive. It is strongly recommended that you don't do any diagnostic work with your original hard drive in place.		Before doing any work on the CG-8 you should back up and clone the internal hard drive. It is strongly recommended that you don't do any diagnostic work with your original hard drive in place.