Hi, new user here...I bought a used kpa and got it yesterday. I put in a new usb stick in and it formatted it and I added a few new rigs. All went like it should. The firmware was up to date 2.4.2. Later, I found some new rigs and not knowing any better, I formatted my stick on the pc and tried to reformat the stick on the kpa. It did not recognize the stick at all. OK, so I buy a new stick and put it in the kpa first thing to let it format. Doesn't recognize it at all. I've read through a lot of posts and did not find a definitive solution. Therefore I decided to do a system reset. I got to the system maintenance page and saw the usb stick format option. I selected that and I got Operation Unsuccessful. I am at a loss since any updates or rig addons are now impossible. Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated at this point. Obviously I have offended the Kemper gods! Best regards, Eric
KPA Doesn't Recognize USB Stick At All (Solved)
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With my KPA, I just have to keep trying and eventually the KPA will recognize the stick. One tip someone offered was to insert the stick while the KPA is in Tuner mode, then switch to Browse mode. No idea if that made any difference or not, but it helped pass the time between attempts.
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Hey burningyen glad you're able to get yours to finally succumb. I gave that a try but no go. I thinking about burning some tanna leaves and mumbling some Teutonic incantations.
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Try to reformat the USB stick on your computer. Right click on the USB drive, choose FAT format and 32k allocation size. Then load to KPA and format it there. Your USB stick is probably not formatted to FAT. Try it and let us know if it works.
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Once my main Kemper USB stick that I had used for more than one year for all operations (rigs + firmware updates) went bad all at once.
Not even my computer recognized it and let me do a re-format.
What I want to say is: these devices are 'special'.
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Hi alwainwright...thanks for your reply, I've tried your suggestion several times and it hasn't responded. The default format is FAT32. I did change the size from 4096 to 32k. I've run out of ideas. Thanks a lot anyway.
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@ingolf...this is my 2nd stick...the stick does recognize data on my pc, it just won't communicate with the kpa. Thanks!
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@ingolf...this is my 2nd stick...the stick does recognize data on my pc, it just won't communicate with the kpa. Thanks!
Yeah I got that.
All I can say is: There's no more way to do troubleshooting. There even was an initiative once to list all the sticks that give problems. Not sure what became of it.
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OK I'll try another brand and see if that will work. Thank you.
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New and different brand stick has solved the issues. Have a splendid day!
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Yeah man...the one that finally worked is a Lexar 8GB Jumpdrive from Target. The two that gave me trouble were PNY 8GB from Walmart.
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Cool! Glad it worked!
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Might be interesting to see if anyone else has has trouble with the PNY sticks.
Glad it's working for you now.
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I was a little reticent buying an unknown "Brand X" but it worked so who cares. The Kemper doesn't know that! Thanks guys, what a nice forum!
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Hi eric_r, I have the same issue with USB stick going on right now with my 2 wk old KPA. Which new stick solved your issues?? Thanks!
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I tried that Lexar stick - no difference. I'm really stumped now... can anyone help? Thanks
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Did you try reformatting per the 4th post in this thread? It has worked for some (not all) in the past. Basically give it a different format from Kemper and then see if Kemper will see it so it can be formatted to Kemper.
This has been a sporatic issue for some time, but I don't recall Kemper folks coming on line and tell us what is different about the USB sticks that they don't work.
As a side note, I bought a 8GB Lexar USB stick at Staples yesterday and it seems to work just fine for me. It says Lexar by Micron on the side.
It would be really helpful if you knew someone else with a Kemper so you could see if your sticks would work in a different Kemper. And if their working sticks would then work in yours.
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Yes I did try re-formatting. It it actually was recognized for a few minutes. The KPA actually formatted over this and I was able to export onto this. Then the KPA quit responding again. Multiple retries failed, though all files are visible still on my PC, as they were with my PNY stick. My Lexar does not say "by Micron", perhaps I can look for that next. Crazy, but thanks for the help! Nice people here *!*
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OK - now it's working... (oh the fun!)