Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "gottamakethings" 
<gottamakethings@a...> wrote:
> Hey fellow VFXrs,
> 
> After 10+ years with VFX-SD, I finally have gotten it to break!!! 
> Here are the symptoms: 
> 
> I moved it to a jam session the other night the same as I always 
do, 
> the weather was mild and keys weren't in the car that long. when I 
> turned the unit on, I went to Seq and got the Sequencer Not Loaded 
> message. Then I tried repeatedly to reload the Sequencer but 
> everytime I hit Disk:Load it woul come back and say "System 
> Initialization Error 179" Now maybe it was 79, I don't remember. I 
> tried everytning, turned it off and on, banged it a few times. 
When I 
> tried the same operation without a disk in, it did know to say "no 
> disk". 
> 
> Thank God the presets worked and i could play! So the next day, I 
> brought it home, turned it on, reloaded the sequencer and it 
worked 
> fine. The next night I turned it on and left it on and when I came 
> back a few hours later it was constantly resetting with a "System 
> Initialization Error 33". Flicking power , it straightened out and 
I 
> had to reload sequencer and it worked for the next couple days.
> 
> I took it apart and looked for anything obvious. I measured the 
> battery, still up at 2.97 volts.
> 
> My baby is getting flakey. Any ideas?????
> 
> Dan

Try totally recallibrating the VFX, back up your sequences and 
sounds before doing this, it will erase everything. Should work.