Quote from: MicroNut on Jul 22, 2026, 03:26 PM@Steelcitygamer8 Welcome to the EE club . I got my BSEE from Penn State and at one point I was thinking of switching to CS. When I got out of college I found I liked programming better and the switch wasn't too hard. Now that I'm about to retire I know much more about programming than EE. My suggestion to you is when you have a technical elective take a computer language to go along with any CS requirements EE needs. Hopefully AI won't take over either field. Also a word of wisdom... you can't spell geek without EE

Thank you, I'm very excited to be a member of the EE club. That's a great idea because I love programming too!

@Steelcitygamer8 Welcome to the EE club . I got my BSEE from Penn State and at one point I was thinking of switching to CS. When I got out of college I found I liked programming better and the switch wasn't too hard. Now that I'm about to retire I know much more about programming than EE. My suggestion to you is when you have a technical elective take a computer language to go along with any CS requirements EE needs. Hopefully AI won't take over either field. Also a word of wisdom... you can't spell geek without EE

Yeah, I normally call them SD Cards, but thought that I should be as accurate as possible when describing a trouble.

So, more research showed me that another possibility is low-quality cards. Bambu Lab gives a generic card with their printers, and some of them, apparently, are pretty poor.

In looking for another card, I wanted a good, name-brand card. Bambu Lab recommended an actual SanDisk (apparently, there are some fakes being sold as true SanDisks,) so that is what I looked for. It's pretty sad that a company like Bambu Lab would damage their own reputation by cheaping out on their included cards - shooting themselves in the foot.

There are different speed ratings for SD Cards, and most of them that I saw are Class 4. Because these printers do not have any internal memory (another area where Bambu Lab could improve their products,) they use the card for all files downloaded to the printer. One Class 10, 32GB card is now on order, and I paid the extra $3 for delivery before 8:00AM tomorrow. Hopefully, that will take care of my issues.

Related to Bambu Lab's printers, there is an article from Call-3D describing this trouble:

QuoteUpdated firmware often places higher demands on the micro SD card—such as faster read/write speeds or more stable data transmission—and the stock card struggles to keep up. Over time, this strain can lead to card damage, directly causing the card error.

The good news? Most users have found that resolving the error is simpler than expected: switching to a high-quality, reputable third-party micro SD card often eliminates the SD card error entirely. This straightforward fix gets your printer back to normal printing operations in no time.

As I have recently purchased my A1, it probably has the updated firmware. The article also recommends that I keep another good-quality card, and use it if I get any more errors - so the author seems to think that even a good card could have troubles. Maybe, Bambu Lab should have put a different storage inside their printers.

So, this seems to confirm my suspicions. As I said, hopefully this will fix my troubles. I will let you guys know if I get any more troubles. And, if not, then I will write up a post for Joe's Tip Thread.

Quote from: granz on Jul 22, 2026, 08:11 AM@Chris Savage, have you (or anyone else) had (or heard of) anything like this? Any ideas?

I never had any such issues or they would have been in my review. In fact, I am a bit embarrassed...I had to look up what a TF card was. I had only known them as SD Cards.

My first real trouble: the TF Card interface is giving trouble.

It started out by the printer giving a read/write error when trying to send a large print (15 different small items) from BambuStudio. It is not constant, so sometimes I can print, and other times it won't even try. One time it started the print, and only got a couple layers down before it quit.

In my searching for how to fix this, I came across a few things to try. First, I did get a brand new TF Card, and format it as FAT-32 on my computer. This seems to have had no change - I think that I got one, or two, prints to work. Some people said that the card needs to be formatted in the printer, but the format never gets going (my printer is currently at 0% of a format started last night - about ten hours,) and I have tried about three, or four, format jobs.

I have had equal successes, and failures, from both cards.

Secondly, some people have recommended a complete shutdown, but that doesn't change the troubles for me, even having tried several times.

The last thing suggested is that they have gotten a new control board from Bambu Lab, and that seemed to take care of the troubles.

@Chris Savage, have you (or anyone else) had (or heard of) anything like this? Any ideas?

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 21, 2026, 05:49 PMI remember those episodes. I also remember all the times he got busted having fantasies in the holodeck with his crewmates.   

Yeah, I always thought that Barclay was kind of creepy in those episodes. It's kind of weird that Deanna Troi kept working with him. Apparently with both of his two biggest roles, Dwight Schultz just kept getting lucky to play crazy people.

I remember those episodes. I also remember all the times he got busted having fantasies in the holodeck with his crewmates.   

LOL, yeah. Don't forget that both of my parents are some of those "strange" Ohioans.

Quote from: granz on Jul 21, 2026, 05:38 PMI do remember seeing that nickname in WikiPedia's article on Cleveland's nicknames.

It the only nickname I've heard and it's used a lot by people here, I've found that Ohioans are quite strange they love there state/city but also hate them lol.

Yeah, and fully convinced that he was right, he kept working (even against orders) until he was able to get communication with USS Voyager working.