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I asked michu how the repair happened. This is what they said: I ordered part from korg (Parts is Parts) long time ago. It was special order Part No 500320012346. Korg FLASH (NOR) S29JL032H70TFI020D(X5260) I replaced flash chip myself on Radias CPU board. It required some practice in micro ...

michu wrote:Yes, Korg has been repaired. Flash memory chip replaced with preprogrammed factory firmware. Let me know if help needed.

WHAT?! Korg told me that there was nothing they could do about it, even from a software side! How did you convince them to do... anything?!

I'm curious if you ever figured this out. Maybe you found this in your search. Sorry if all this is stuff you probably already looked into and thought about. Good luck! Oh my! What intriguing resources! And if such a plan went off without a hitch, the whole "send it to this guy" idea doesn't sound ...

Any luck Pippy?

I'm thinking about sending my Radias to Korg as well should my requests for a ROM dump not pan out...

Well, not only would it cost more buying a whole module just for one part as opposed to buying a chip and a programmer, but my RADIAS has lots of sentimental value to me. It was a gift from a family member I rarely see, and it's the only physical synth I have. It also worked as a gateway to teach me ...

Oh dude oh man you gotta hook a brotha up I will love you forever man you have no idea

I've spent far too long worrying over when the flash will die. Well, that and if the caps are eating through the board by now...

All of this assuming I'm all on my own here and I get to dismounting the flash in the first place...

You sound like you know what you're talking about! Could you provide a dump if you find yourself opening up your RADIAS one day?

Factory commissioning and accompanying hardware? What might that entail? I've sourced available stock of both the original S29JL032H70TFI020D and the more recent S29JL032J, so binaries should be binaries right?

Ohh... I sure hope someone out there has done the work before me.

michu wrote:I'm working on it. Wish me luck !

Did anything ever come out of this work?

I've had my RADIAS-R for what's likely been over a decade, and as of these past few years it's been getting that dreaded "SYNTH ROM checksum" error 9 times out of 10 boots. I've taken it to a registered KORG repair center, and their diagnosis is that the flash memory has temperature-based ...