Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

You answered your own question!  =)

>> except sometimes doesn't pass RAM test

You have faulty RAM.  That's why sometimes random stuff fails.  If you're lucky, it could be just the solder joints on the RAM chip.  Have someone handy with surface mount parts check & resolder them and you might be all set...

-Aaron

On Nov 22, 2010, at 3:16 PM, lovecolour wrote:

> BTW it has OS 1.31
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "lovecolour" <lovecolour@...> wrote:
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>> Bought a used MP7 with MROM ... after about 2- 3 hours use I got a message ERROR CODE 001 Bad Instruction! Fatal - Just how fatal is it? It goes through all diagnostics well - except sometimes doesn't pass RAM test.
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>> I tried updating to OS 2.00 but it always quits sometime after a couple thousand bytes xferred, sometimes til about 2/3 of the way completed.
>> I had to use 2 different midi hookups to go that far (in say a USB Midi and out a parallel port midi)
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>> If repairable (or if I get a new one) will I be able to play back sequences formed on MR 76 with out trouble. I am particularly interested in knowing if the QROM maps the drums (non-GM) the same as the MR/ZR. (I did find out how to record from the drum machine on those boards)
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