virus classic not receiving midi..please help!

[laputa]

i bought a s/h classic a few months ago and everything was working fine.
yesterday i performed a factory reset so i could start with a fresh set of banks.

however, after performing the reset my classic is not receiving midi at all
im using a rme fireface 400 which is transmitting midi fine (my other synths recieve midi no problem)

setup on virus is:

midi dumo tx = single buff

midi dump rx = enable

midi global chan= 1

panel= int+midi

arpeggsend=off

clockrx= auto

midi volume =ena

progchange=ena

multiprogchg=dis

diviceID=1

lopage=contr

hipage=sysex

im tranmitting midi on channel one but still the virus does not seem to be picking it up (the little note sign does not appear)

please can someone help....im getting a little bit worried!