2.0 Installation problem (and solution)

29 Mar 2005, 14:26

As I mentioned in another thread, I had a puzzling problem with the installation of OS 2.0.

The actual installation worked fine. When restarting, I would watch the progress bar...it would load all the patches and then proceed to the samples. As soon as it got about halfway through (PRC Dumbek), it would halt and a screen would pop up that simply said "DISK ERROR: Unknown Disk Error". The only button was "accept".

Hitting that button took me to the main page, where the OS seemed to have loaded up just fine. The only problem was there were no PCMs or patches.

I tried reloading the OS from 2 different computers (1 Mac, 2 PCs) with the same result. Reloading 1.51 got everything back to normal. I was 100% positive that it was an internal hardwired RAM issue...not good. The only thing was I had filled the memory on many occassions without issue. I was stumped.

Roland Tech Support had no answers, so I started the horrible process of disconnecting the keyboard to send it in for service. I pulled the USB, the Power, and the PC-MCIA Card...

Hmmm...the PC Card. I pulled it out and restarted.

It worked fine.

The conclusion? OS 2.0 is VERY picky about external memory, apparently. I do not have access to my other PC-MCIA Cards at the moment, so I will experiment later and report the results.

Hope this helps someone else with similar frustration.

Re: 2.0 Installation problem (and solution)

29 Mar 2005, 14:33

Actually all you needed to do was do a factory reset to load the new default project - I know this cos it happened to me too. I think the V-Synth will have tried to load its last project on power up and this is sadly not gonna work with version 2.

Once I did a factory reset I saved this as my new working project. It then loads without that rather obscure error message.

Paul

Re: 2.0 Installation problem (and solution)

29 Mar 2005, 15:39

Nope, not in my case. I've already performed a factory reset and everything was fine.

But when I pop this PCMCIA card back in and restart, it dies at the exact same point. I'm not sure what it's addressing on the external card at startup.

But it's nice to know that I'm not the only person in the world that got that message.

Re: 2.0 Installation problem (and solution)

29 Mar 2005, 17:33

Hmm, weird indeed. Sorry I couldn't be of any help..,

Paul

Re: 2.0 Installation problem (and solution)

29 Mar 2005, 21:01

Hi guys

sounds like we all had similar experience. I found that when I had first performed update I had the same message as yourselves. All I did was to unplug my External card and reboot. This loaded the new patches without any problem. Once I had done this I tried loading with the external card in the slot and all seems OK.

I have tried accessing the card and find that if I try and load a project which refers back to the original WAVES from 1.51 the project won't load. However I also had a project which didn't have any of the old waves in and this loads fine.

I going to try using Vsynth librarian to remove any patches using the old waves and try loading the projects then to see if I can keep at least some of my old sounds (only 6 months work!!!!) will let you know how I get on ASAP.

cheers The Sherriff

Re: 2.0 Installation problem (and solution)

30 Mar 2005, 18:20

Thanks for the info Sheriff. Mine will not boot up at all with this card inserted, but that's not really a surprise for me, as it is an ANCIENT memory card.