Hello everyone, first post here.
I am in a bit of a bind and am looking for help. I recently purchased an FW-1804 after dreaming about them back in the early 2000's. Assembling my dream studio with the Tascam at the heart of it.
So I mount everything in the rack, and in my Windows XP desktop I install the most recent drivers for Windows XP (v. 1.80). I turn on the 1804 and it turns on. The firewire light comes on, but then goes off after a little bit. The computer sees it, but then looses communication. (internal TI firewire card on the motherboard). So thinking it was a bug (the inputs were working, I got sound from those), I download the firmware updater from the tascam site (https://tascam.jp/int/product/fw-1804/support) . Turn the unit off, wait 10 seconds, turn it on and when the firewire connection was green I ran the update.
The update seemed to go through just fine, and at the end it told me to turn the device off, reboot, and turn it back on.
Now the unit doesn't turn on. I can see an amber light that lights up on the motherboard (I can see it through the vents) when I press the power button but nothing on the front panel works anymore. no lights, no power, nothing. Is this a known issue? is there a service manual for this device? are there any fixes I could try? am I out of luck?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am in a bit of a bind and am looking for help. I recently purchased an FW-1804 after dreaming about them back in the early 2000's. Assembling my dream studio with the Tascam at the heart of it.
So I mount everything in the rack, and in my Windows XP desktop I install the most recent drivers for Windows XP (v. 1.80). I turn on the 1804 and it turns on. The firewire light comes on, but then goes off after a little bit. The computer sees it, but then looses communication. (internal TI firewire card on the motherboard). So thinking it was a bug (the inputs were working, I got sound from those), I download the firmware updater from the tascam site (https://tascam.jp/int/product/fw-1804/support) . Turn the unit off, wait 10 seconds, turn it on and when the firewire connection was green I ran the update.
The update seemed to go through just fine, and at the end it told me to turn the device off, reboot, and turn it back on.
Now the unit doesn't turn on. I can see an amber light that lights up on the motherboard (I can see it through the vents) when I press the power button but nothing on the front panel works anymore. no lights, no power, nothing. Is this a known issue? is there a service manual for this device? are there any fixes I could try? am I out of luck?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
