Boss VF-1 Effect Processor

I finally got one of these a few days ago, and checked today and saw it was version 1.00, so I downloaded the 1.13 files from here and the SMF player from the Roland site (I'm on a Mac). Followed the instructions to the letter, and at the end saw there was a check sum error but that the operation had completed and the instructions on the unit said to wait 40 seconds before powering it down, so I did so. After turning the unit back on, the screen is blank. Despite this, I tried resending the files, but no change.

Please, please tell me there is some way to recover this. I haven't even had it 48 hours and would hate for it to be dead.

thank you

Ran Pad

> 在 2014年8月1日，8:16，"justinrharris66@... [BOSSVF1]" <BOSSVF1@yahoogroups.com> 写道：
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> I finally got one of these a few days ago, and checked today and saw it was version 1.00, so I downloaded the 1.13 files from here and the SMF player from the Roland site (I'm on a Mac). Followed the instructions to the letter, and at the end saw there was a check sum error but that the operation had completed and the instructions on the unit said to wait 40 seconds before powering it down, so I did so. After turning the unit back on, the screen is blank. Despite this, I tried resending the files, but no change. 
> 
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> Please, please tell me there is some way to recover this. I haven't even had it 48 hours and would hate for it to be dead. 
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My first try updating to 1.13 also went wrong. It also said checksum error and the screen was blank after turning back on. Then I tried the update procedure with version 1.12 and it worked.

Is your unit yet responding when you hold the WRITE and < buttons while turning on ("Flash Update" message on screen)? If so, try it with 1.12.

Good luck!

I remember something about this updating but it's a long time ago so I 
could be wrong.

But I somehow remember it was not possible to update from version 1.00 
directly to 1.13.
You first have to update to 1.12 and after that to 1.13

Succes !

On 8/1/2014 8:53 AM, stef6510@... [BOSSVF1] wrote:
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>
> My first try updating to 1.13 also went wrong. It also said checksum 
> error and the screen was blank after turning back on. Then I tried the 
> update procedure with version 1.12 and it worked.
>
> Is your unit yet responding when you hold the  WRITE and < buttons 
> while turning on ("Flash Update" message on screen)? If so, try it 
> with 1.12.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
>

Best regards,
Roland Service Department"

So better to buy another used one. For anyone updating, maybe try doing the 1.12 update first.