MPC2000 won't start up

Hey. Copying this from the soundonsound.com forums - it's not myself asking the question, but it seems the bloke needs all the help he can get:

17 may, 2004, 01:39 AM
"Hi. My MPC 2000 crashed with the message "DIV.error at 3000:F4" and now refuses to start up. It gets some way into the start-up and then crashes and freezes. This happened for the first time about a week ago, and I assumed it was the floppy disk itself that was knackered. After turning the scsi zip drive off and on and trying to re-start about 50 times, it did start up. So I copied the start-up disk to another floppy. Since then it's been no trouble. But if it's not the disk itself I'm seriously worried as I'm supposed to be gigging with it tomorrow night. I also backed-up the boot files to zip - but the MPC seems to want to only boot from the floppy drive. PLEASE HELP!"

Read the full thread here: http://sound-on-sound2.infopop.net/2/Op ... #450106591

The poor bugger has a sound check in three hours. Hope anybody can help!

-Paws

damn. wish i could offer some helpful advice. thats messed up tho...hope he found out something...

It could be that the first disk got slightly corrupted, so the os on it got corrupted. A copy of that disk just got him a corrupted os copy. Solution get the latest os for the mpc 2000 from the aka site and make a brandnew startup disk.

if it okay then i guess can he do now, just make sure he gets the newest version from akaipro.com

From SOS:

"Got to the gig, faced Mecca, crossed myself, sacrificed a virgin goat and then turned the MPC on... and it started up! Gig was a triumph - I was backing up Baby Kain of the ORIGINAL Original Last Poets. The boys at Sony and EMI are fighting out who gets to sign us right now. Probably.
Thanks for the help in my moment of crisis, fellas."

So everything worked out.

-Paws