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From: erik_magrini@... [mailto:erik_magrini@...] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:37 AM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xl7] Grr!

My XL-7's possessed or something, last night it was acting up like crazy! 
Doing all of the following:

- Presets were panning weirdly, even with no patchcords controlling this.
- Two of my snare presets are now insanely loud, I have turn the AmpVol 
down to -50 or so just to make it reasonable, with only 1 layer too.  They 
were just fine previously at +4 too.
- Randomize Preset takes close to 20 seconds to do it's thing now???
- The data wheel will sometimes scroll the opposite way I'm turning it.
- The menus change screens very slowly (5 seconds ???) while Patterns are 
playing back.

Anyone seen any of these before?

I just had to compact last week, so I don't think that's it.  All of the 
patterns are pretty light information wise, so I don't think that's it 
either.  Damn, I hope I don't need another XX-7, money's too tight right 
now :(  Although it would be nice to have a new PX-7...

rEalm


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        Subject:        Re: [xl7] Re: Grr!


Try walking through the diagnostics.  Careful though, some of them blow
away all your user data (they'll mention if they do beforehand).  If
it's a hardware problem, it should find it...

-Aaron

--- erik_magrini@... wrote:
> Tried those too.  :)

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        Subject:        [xl7] Re: Grr!


Well, maybe I can give back some ideas to help repay you for all the 
advice you have been able to give.

It seems your hardware options have nearly all been tried. before 
moving on to fully reloading the OS, I would suggest you do the 
following:

Make sure no midi cables are plugged in (I have seen bizarre things 
when a midi buffer overrun happens in my XL-1's chain, IE: during 
SMIDI sample dumps) and restart.

Unplug the hardware from the power source long enough to let the 
capacitors discharge (~10 minutes would be more than enough)

Remove all simms but one and try it in each slot to test for a power 
surge affecting the this path. If the problem is suddenly gone, 
repeat but with a different simm each time (looking for some 
conbination that causes the problem)

If all else fails, you should consider getting whatever data you can 
out of the system and reloading the software, taking special note to 
observe any abnormalities with the reload process.

-T

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> Tried those too.  :)
> 
> rEalm
> 
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> 
> A few weeks/months ago I experienced problems (OS lock up, random 
> reboot, etc.).  Some of the advice I got (including some from you), 
> included checking/changing power cord, reseating SIMMS, double 
> checking all internal connectors, etc.
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> Thanks for the ideas, but I tried a Reset last night
> and it's still there. 
>  Unless you mean reflash as in reload the OS? 
> Hopefully that fixes it, 
> right now the whole box feels very sluggish, and
> it's hard to work with it 
> like that.  It does seem like I didn't see this
> issues before my last 
> Compact, so hopefully that's what caused it and
> Reflash works.
> 
> rEalm
> 
> 
> 
> 1) Backup all your patches and do a full midi dump
> to a NEW patch library
> (If the patches themselves are corrupted you won't
> want to overwrite your
> old ones) etc.
> 
> 2) re-flash your memory
> 
> What I think it may be is Cell decay (Leading to
> corruption) from the
> various patch writes.  You may be hitting it first
> because you have
> consistently been using your Command Station more
> than most of us on this
> list.  I think that when you reflash it must check
> to see if the cell has
> gone bad and writes to an alternate cell that is
> fine.  The compact
> operation forces a lot of writes across a large
> number of cells, that is 
> one
> of the reasons it isn't an automatic function - and
> it may have been the
> straw that broke the camels back.
> 
> Just a thought,
> Andre
>  
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        Subject:        RE: [xl7] Grr!


Could you have some weird MIDI loop going on?  I had a
hard time getting my maching working one day and I
realized I had created a crazy loop.

Mark

--- erik_magrini@... wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas, but I tried a Reset last night
> and it's still there. 
>  Unless you mean reflash as in reload the OS? 
> Hopefully that fixes it, 
> right now the whole box feels very sluggish, and
> it's hard to work with it 
> like that.  It does seem like I didn't see this
> issues before my last 
> Compact, so hopefully that's what caused it and
> Reflash works.
> 
> rEalm
> 
> 
> 
> 1) Backup all your patches and do a full midi dump
> to a NEW patch library
> (If the patches themselves are corrupted you won't
> want to overwrite your
> old ones) etc.
> 
> 2) re-flash your memory
> 
> What I think it may be is Cell decay (Leading to
> corruption) from the
> various patch writes.  You may be hitting it first
> because you have
> consistently been using your Command Station more
> than most of us on this
> list.  I think that when you reflash it must check
> to see if the cell has
> gone bad and writes to an alternate cell that is
> fine.  The compact
> operation forces a lot of writes across a large
> number of cells, that is 
> one
> of the reasons it isn't an automatic function - and
> it may have been the
> straw that broke the camels back.
> 
> Just a thought,
> Andre
> 
> 
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> 
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