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ok the fact that you are @ 6 o'clock tells me you are in the correct position the key should have the letter "C" on it.
if you have paper in it and the drawer is closed then there is no more to be said - its beyond any advice we can give on here and its up to you to decide whether to take it in to your local dealer or scrap it!
As per my first post,that model is so cheap and cheerful, the cost of a call out/repair may well render the machine a write off!!
CAN ANYONE ELSE ON HERE ADD ANYTHING FURTHER?
It sounds simple - E1 is a "you've done something daft" error but i genuinely don't get many issues on this machine and as such can't think what it could be - Try removing the battery again and see if the all clear works then [that's clutching at straws I'm afraid]
A couple of thoughts..
make sure the clear button is in the original position. Sometimes people move the button and it has to be in the original position to work during RAM clear. Check the keyboard layout in your book and make sure it is in the same place on your keyboard. If you've changed the battery, it almost certainly has to have a RAM clear or it will just have scrambled memory and give weird errors etc.
I have had the print wheels faulty sometimes so I wondered if you are missing the 'S' part of CS due to the end print wheel not working. See if you can get a report to print by turning to Z mode and press CASH. If it prints, see if the end digit (or the two letters at the right) is printing as normal.
Andy, thanks for your reply.
Whilst I appreciate that it's a cheap n cheerful register, I do hate throwing things out whilst there's a chance of them being fixed.
One of my foibles I'm sorry to say.
Regman, buttons as per User/Service Manual. Rechecked.
Oddly though your Z + CASH works! No beeps just a long print out.
Prints numerics 1..9, even though all the totals are 0.00.
Alpha characters T,R, V, C, S & N. Plus +, - & #
I guessing that it's probably a memory fault.
Can I get hold of a working motherboard anywhere?
Looking at all the trouble you're having, I think you might have two problems here. A corrupt ROM and a faulty printer or at least a printer with a slipped character wheel. Even if you did get a good motherboard I still think you'd have the printing problem.
I used to have to deal with these machines and a new motherboard will cost more than a new till and the printers were little pigs to work on.
A guy I used to work with used to to just scrap a 290 rather than attempt a repair. It did work out cheaper!
Looking at all the trouble you're having, I think you might have two problems here. A corrupt ROM and a faulty printer or at least a printer with a slipped character wheel. Even if you did get a good motherboard I still think you'd have the printing problem.
I'd worry about the mechanicals should I fix the E1 problem.
I used to have to deal with these machines and a new motherboard will cost more than a new till and the printers were little pigs to work on.
A guy I used to work with used to to just scrap a 290 rather than attempt a repair. It did work out cheaper!
May well be correct here, porty. But I was thinking of a mobo from a scrapper that sort of works.
There's a guy on eBay supposed to be selling a key reprogramming kit for these but how in hell he's going to do that with a non-reprogrammable PROM on board is quite a puzzle.
Magic wand perhaps 
