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<blockquote data-quote="Nick Amento" data-source="post: 88220" data-attributes="member: 4285"><p>Re: Si Expression</p><p></p><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I received my Expression Si 3 a few days ago. For over a month I was on the fence over the Expression 3 or X32. For various reasons I choose the Expression 3. </p><p></p><p>I am wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience I had with mine initially.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">After 30 minutes of use it was locking up/hanging constantly. Weeks of looking forward for this board and now I'm questioning if this was a mistake it was this model or B. I was super excited SC decided to enter this price point.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">First thing I did was format the SD card and update to 1.0 Build 0004 software. When I hit 'Format SD card' it displayed 'updating' for a few seconds and then I rebooted the console (would be nice to have a reboot option in your update menus, vs. holding down power key). I booted it again and applied the 1.0v 0004 update, waited for the 2 tick marks, everything worked fine. Rebooted again and started playing around with the desk. Decided to save a 'show' to the internal storage. Took longer then I thought for it to save, but it did save. I was a bit disappointed that console control functions are locked out while saving & disk I/O functions. Makes me not want to save a show while live if that is intended behavior. After about 3 minutes I decided to save the same show again over the top one. I ack'ed the "are you sure you want to overwrite" with yes. 5-6 minutes later board is still spinning saying 'saving'. Finally I rebooted the console, it froze on the "soundcraft" screen. Super. Went into boot ment and formatted internal SD storage. rebooted, same behavior. Rebooted again and re-updated the firmware with 1.0v 0004. System booted, but took about 6 minutes. Now whenever I do anything scene or show based the console hangs for moments and a little yellow warning icon appears in the upper right hand side of the screen. The system log is filling with "Error writing new snapshot to file (Error code 12) & "Error auto-saving cue data snapshot (Error code 16). Since the board is auto saving, I cannot use this for a live mix since it hangs for 30-45 seconds randomly now. It's unfortunate, I had such great expectations for this series now that it was finally in my price range.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">At this point everything pointed to the SD card - so I opened the console and reseated the SD card (I do not recommend this unless you are comfortable with what you are doing) It was loose and only retained in the surface mount SD holder by a piece of tape. Before closing it up I put it in the most convenient computer for good measure - happened to be a macbook pro with SD card slot. Interestingly enough the original file was on there even after formatting it a number of times using the boot menu formater on the Expression - it didn't format it. This could be due to the SD card coming loose. I reformatted it on the mac just incase, I didn't feel like removing 30 something odd screws again. From shell on OSX using - newfs_msdos -F 16 /dev/disk1s1 so it is FAT16 and reinstalled it. I replaced the factory tape holding the card into the socket with stronger tape. It appears the tape is the only thing holding the card into the socket, it is quite loose! I'm up and running now, hopefully that sorted it. I am wondering though if this breaks on me again - if I insert a USB stick in the console does it override the internal SD card? or will the internal SD card still be used for saving checkpoints? What if I just removed the SD card altogether? </span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here is a pic of the factory tape holding the SD card in. It is very loose in the holder. I'm wondering if I 'padded' the card out a bit with more tiny pices of gaff if it will help stay in the socket more firmly, or if this will be addressed in another hardware rev - <a href="http://digivill.net/~binary/pix/bucket/expresson32-sd-card.jpg" target="_blank">http://digivill.net/~binary/pix/bucket/expresson32-sd-card.jpg</a></p><p></p><p>So I'm wondering has anyone else had this issue? Could this be a design issue? I'm not recommending people open their consoles to check, but a piece of gaff sorted my issue. (for now).</p><p></p><p>-nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nick Amento, post: 88220, member: 4285"] Re: Si Expression Hello, I received my Expression Si 3 a few days ago. For over a month I was on the fence over the Expression 3 or X32. For various reasons I choose the Expression 3. I am wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience I had with mine initially. [COLOR=#333333]After 30 minutes of use it was locking up/hanging constantly. Weeks of looking forward for this board and now I'm questioning if this was a mistake it was this model or B. I was super excited SC decided to enter this price point. First thing I did was format the SD card and update to 1.0 Build 0004 software. When I hit 'Format SD card' it displayed 'updating' for a few seconds and then I rebooted the console (would be nice to have a reboot option in your update menus, vs. holding down power key). I booted it again and applied the 1.0v 0004 update, waited for the 2 tick marks, everything worked fine. Rebooted again and started playing around with the desk. Decided to save a 'show' to the internal storage. Took longer then I thought for it to save, but it did save. I was a bit disappointed that console control functions are locked out while saving & disk I/O functions. Makes me not want to save a show while live if that is intended behavior. After about 3 minutes I decided to save the same show again over the top one. I ack'ed the "are you sure you want to overwrite" with yes. 5-6 minutes later board is still spinning saying 'saving'. Finally I rebooted the console, it froze on the "soundcraft" screen. Super. Went into boot ment and formatted internal SD storage. rebooted, same behavior. Rebooted again and re-updated the firmware with 1.0v 0004. System booted, but took about 6 minutes. Now whenever I do anything scene or show based the console hangs for moments and a little yellow warning icon appears in the upper right hand side of the screen. The system log is filling with "Error writing new snapshot to file (Error code 12) & "Error auto-saving cue data snapshot (Error code 16). Since the board is auto saving, I cannot use this for a live mix since it hangs for 30-45 seconds randomly now. It's unfortunate, I had such great expectations for this series now that it was finally in my price range. At this point everything pointed to the SD card - so I opened the console and reseated the SD card (I do not recommend this unless you are comfortable with what you are doing) It was loose and only retained in the surface mount SD holder by a piece of tape. Before closing it up I put it in the most convenient computer for good measure - happened to be a macbook pro with SD card slot. Interestingly enough the original file was on there even after formatting it a number of times using the boot menu formater on the Expression - it didn't format it. This could be due to the SD card coming loose. I reformatted it on the mac just incase, I didn't feel like removing 30 something odd screws again. From shell on OSX using - newfs_msdos -F 16 /dev/disk1s1 so it is FAT16 and reinstalled it. I replaced the factory tape holding the card into the socket with stronger tape. It appears the tape is the only thing holding the card into the socket, it is quite loose! I'm up and running now, hopefully that sorted it. I am wondering though if this breaks on me again - if I insert a USB stick in the console does it override the internal SD card? or will the internal SD card still be used for saving checkpoints? What if I just removed the SD card altogether? [/COLOR] Here is a pic of the factory tape holding the SD card in. It is very loose in the holder. I'm wondering if I 'padded' the card out a bit with more tiny pices of gaff if it will help stay in the socket more firmly, or if this will be addressed in another hardware rev - [URL]http://digivill.net/~binary/pix/bucket/expresson32-sd-card.jpg[/URL] So I'm wondering has anyone else had this issue? Could this be a design issue? I'm not recommending people open their consoles to check, but a piece of gaff sorted my issue. (for now). -nick [/QUOTE]
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