Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By Krux Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:38 pm
Just pulled it outta an old computer I have at home and forgot about. All the stores I've been to in my area don't stock such old, mpc friendly ram anymore.
I know you can use 60ns and 70ns simms, but I don't know what this is. On the last photo, the two marked numbers in the MHZ column are 100 and 99.
Anyone know?



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By thhfoot Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:58 pm
i found some ram in a pawn shop tryed it out and it worked fine it's really hit and miss so i would tryt it. it's an easy operation to do your self it takes about 5 min and if it works you just saved yourself some time and money. check out www.mpc2000xl.com they have good instructions for installing the memory.

peace.
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By young_keyz Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:38 pm
i found my memory is a self own used and for sale/computer repair store. Just ask them if they have old pentium 1 memory
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By binger0 Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:32 pm
just understand that wack/cheap ram will prob start makin ur machine freeze up and crash or casue wierd errors down the road. so if it does get more.
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By Lampdog Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:48 pm
No it will not work. You need 72 pin sdram 60/70 nanosecond access time.
PM me and I will send you a pic of the correct RAM. 72 pin with 1 notch in it not 2 notches like you have.

By colinbradley7 Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:30 am
I was just about to post on this topic. Am i right in saying that dodgy RAM wont harm your MPC, it just might stop it working smoothly? If you take it out again, everything will be alright??
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By Lampdog Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:23 pm
Bing is right, but it's cheap anyway so get a bunch of sticks on the first purchase and store them low in your closet where it's cool.

If you had dodgy RAM and it freezes your MPC it will stop being dodgy if you take it out and put it back in, it's the same ram right? Sometimes though you might need to reseat the ram and that could be the problem though. It will not harm your MPC as far as I know, it will just freeze it up.
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By Krux Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:21 am
edited