[A6] a6 freezes during bootup

[cgould11 at tampabay.rr.com]

>   Hi everyone, I was jamming on a song with a 
> friend the past weekend and after a freeze, the 
> A6 no longer boots up properly. During the
>   sequence it will do the normal b/w reversal but 
> then it does it a second time and gets stuck 
> like that. Any idea how I can initialize it or 
> get it to boot up again?

Turn on the Andromeda while holding software button 
4 (software reset.) 

If this doesn't work, try loading the Andromeda 
while holding software button 1 (diagnostic mode, 
but useful if there is a corrupt patch.) 

If *this* doesn't work, you may have a corrupt 
bootloader or OS (both I believe come in the
package you can download here: 
http://www.alesis.com/downloads/software/A6/)

If *this* doesn't work, you can perform a hardware
reset by powering on with soft button 3 (this will
however wipe out *all user programs* so use this as
a last resort.)

>   Also, does anyone know where to get the 
> cheapest 2meg SRAM cards for extra memory? 

2MB SRAM cards are $59.99 at Tima Scientific
(http://www.timasci.com/) and that is the cheapest
I've found so far. Note that the attribute memory
isn't necessary.