Hello, I had more a year and a half my X1 HD with the 3.2 OS, I got it with the expanded RAM (both) sequencer and patterns too, and about 2 months ago began doing things like “ FORMATING FLASH RAM), of course all my user patterns and registrations said goodbye, I do have a back up of all those patterns/registrations, here is my problem, every time I try to load again the patterns/registrations, sometimes let´s me put 3 or 4 PATTERNS then in the display says “ pattern corrupted ” then comes the legend
“Warning formating flash ram” re-setting itself (turn off, then on).
I find it hard to believe, because I got long ago the USB styles/patterns for the X1 and loaded in the X1´s memory for more than a year without problems, I don´t want to depend only on the factory styles
( excelent, but not all I need for the kind of music I play ), or the MIDI files, what can I do? the nearest Ketron dealer ( Dallas Tx) is almost 20 hours drive from my city( Queretaro, Mexico) and there are not dealers in Mexico…..
Any suggestions will be very welcome, in the mean time I´m saving for my SD1.

Thanks
Manuel Dorantes


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mdorantes

Hi,
Could be a freeze-up in the CPU and you might have to reset your keyboard.
(1)
* Press SAVE/ENTER (while in your standard screen).
* Press F7 (RESET) to reset the keyboard (REGISTRATIONS, USER VOICES etc).
Now run the keyboard as usual and see if the error still occures.

(2) When the keyboard is on and on the standard display, press
* F1 and F10 simultaneously for 1 second
* X1 will run a self-test on all components. Make sure your FLASH test checks out OK. If not contact me (axa130@hotmail.com) and let me know what you see.
* To ensure error proff, manually run test again by pressing F9 (REPEAT), F10 (CONT), F1(FLASH). Let me know what the results are.

Hope this helps.

AJ

Hi AJ and thanks for the fast reply, I follow everything you said step by step, check all items OK ! , but at the time to try to load again the patterns/styles it did it again…..first freeze up the screen, I had to turn it off because just stay like that, then later I try it again (load the styles), this time “ warning flash Ram is formating “ or something like that, still in same conditions the X1, any other sugestions/advise…..will be appreciated, and thanks again.

Manuel Tato Dorantes


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mdorantes

Hi,
I really have no experiense about this issue,
but maybe this is for any help?

Some weeks ago, I was on a stand for Solton SD1,
and there some visitors mentioned about
"bugs" in the last ugrade/flash for X1.
The Solton man then answered that there was some
major bugs in the last upgrade,and adviced the
users to reinstall the prevoius version again.
If I don't remember it wrong,that was v3.1.

GJ



[This message has been edited by Gunnar Jonny (edited 07-09-2001).]

Thank you Gunnar Jonny, I did download the 3.1a OS, I install it and try it, and is a little better, let me load 5 up to 16 then comes up a pattern/style that crash on my again, I just have to be carefull in what style/patterns do that to the X1, and load them selectibly, I think this possibly will work, Thanks again..

Manuel Dorantes

tato_dorantes@hotmail.com

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mdorantes

So if anybody has a similar problem, the answer is, to change OS ( in my case, I did to the 3.0, with the 3.1 I had still a little trouble, ) it works great, no more "warning flash RAM formating" or check sum error", etc. I uploaded the styles/patterns, made my registrations, no problem anymore, thanks to the guys that answer with suggestions/advise, they put me in the righ track.

P.S. I really like this Forum !! Great Job