baconjuice

Hello again everybody, I've been beating my head over this one for a few days now and hope you guys can help. I built my bankstick and plugged it into the core module. The core then formats it with, seemingly, no problems. I use midiox to upload v2_vintage_bank.syx with the 750ms delay and that seems to work, at least no errors are reported. Still however, I'm not getting patches. When I plug in the bankstick, I get a "beep" confirming it was plugged in, but the only patch I can play is the default one. I tried using MIOS studio to change patches but that doesn't work either. Is there a step that I am missing? I saw this line in changelog.txt inside of the midibox sid software package: "temporary disabled BankStick routines, so that MBSIDV1 patches won't be overwritten" is this correct or is the document just out of date? Thanks!

Quick update..... Looks like my board is fine after all. I'm just a NOOB!!! And had my power plugged into the wrong pins on the core module. This was causing my PIC to only get 3.0 volts instead of 5.0. :-[ Now to install that pull up resistor. Thanks again everyone. One more question....How hot does the SID chip get while in operation? Mine seems to get pretty warm to the touch.

Thanks everyone for the help. I did do the checks to the power supply for noise, I also reinstalled MIOS and the SID app. I think Thorsten nailed it. I don't have the pull up resistor installed. Now however, I'm not getting anything from my core module. When I apply power, my lcd backlight comes on dimly and there is no feedback from the core. Could not having the CAN interface resistor cause this problem? Good thing I have a link to this handy trouble shooting guide! Thanks, I was looking for something like this.

Hello Everyone, First of all, many thanks to Thorsten, SmashTv and this community for so many great projects and information. I have been lurking around here for a little bit, mostly trying to get educated as I'm pretty new at this stuff. But, I have almost completed my first midibox sid from parts I purchased from SmashTv. I am having an issue however where things reboot after about five minutes of being powered up. ??? I'm currently running MIOS version 1.9f on PIC18F4685 with a 6581 SID. At first I thought the problem might be power related, but I checked the power supply on an oscilloscope and even during the reboot, the power was constant. In order to try and narrow the problem down I reinstalled MIOS. I ran that for a while and no rebooting ever happened. As soon as I install version 2 of the SID software however, then the reboots start to happen again. Has anyone else had this issue? I've tried two SID chips (6581) and both exhibit the same problem. Could both chips be bad? Many thanks in advance for the help.