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Subject: weird memory disruption

From: "wasteking1" <wasteking1@...>
Date: 2010-04-01

over the past 3 weeks my polaris has had an odd memory loss problem. While playing a song, particularly a section on the bass notes, the keyboard just stopped making sound. and wouldnt respond to pushbuttons, I restarted the polaris and changing to other programs showed that all the sounds had changed and even the 6 voices didnt play sounding the same-- autotune would bring the voices back, but i had to reload the memory from the cassette to get the sounds back corectly . this has now happenned 3 times--- but with plenty of normal operation in between. the only thing I can think of as a cause could be related to how a couple months ago i did a memory chip upgrade---with new chips from digikey--- every thing was fine it seemed---but in pulling the old chips i had to pull pretty hard and i definetly was flexing the PC board. could i have broken some traces or solder joints?? and that i could loose battery power for a split second thus screwing up the memory? im trying to figure this one out, any ideas? The odd thing is the inconsistancy , but i think i was playing the same song with a rocking bass part on the low octave black keys when it just died---perhaps vibrating it. does this make sense?