Flash-ROM install Tutorial

I started this tutorial 2 years ago and never finished it, maybe some of you are interested in it.....photo quality is fkd up, but you should get the essentials of installing a 8MB Flash-ROM into a Mpc 2000 classick. enjoy...

power off first, ground the machine, unscrew your 2000.Three screws on the bottom of the front panel.and the two on the sides.
three under the front panel,

and three in the back

it should look like that now

unscrew the pad and switches board with the upper screws

and the screw on the board below the cursor marked with arrows

you can lift the board, but be careful, it`s connected through a wire.that can be disconnected through pushing the pins on the left and right side of the connector.

the white connector is the place to be for the Flash ROM

these metal plate and these two screws hold the board in it`s place.

they should be fitted that way.note the side of the Flash ROM chips.





shown here is the jumper setting, both pins are down

I wish I woul have the Flash card. Would make my 2000 complete. But I rarly see them on ebbay and most of the time I'm to broke to invest in this card.
Thanks for the tutorial

peace

kein ding. hab`dir `nen link geschickt.....

great thread!


So that is not the same connector the eb-16 would be placed in or is it?

I assume you have your OS on the f-rom to avoid the need of the boot disk?

mr_debauch wrote:great thread!


So that is not the same connector the eb-16 would be placed in or is it?

I assume you have your OS on the f-rom to avoid the need of the boot disk?

right, not the same connector.
Storing the OS in it is the biggest bonus. when I play live, I store my programs in it to avoid moving with my zip drive...

Maxillaa wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:great thread!


So that is not the same connector the eb-16 would be placed in or is it?

I assume you have your OS on the f-rom to avoid the need of the boot disk?

right, not the same connector.
Storing the OS in it is the biggest bonus. when I play live, I store my programs in it to avoid moving with my zip drive...

awesome, yeah for sure THE expansion to own for the 2000 classic... I am not sure if the xl would need it quite as much. It also is the rarest and most expensive expansion for the machines too... I think maybe I have seen one for sale once on ebay and it was going for like 400 bucks.

Wouldn't it be sweet if it could be expanded to like 32 megs?

rarest, defenitly. but not expensive. there`s one on german ebay for 90 euros...just as expensive as the 8-outs and fx-card.
sad to say, it`s not so reliable, I had a few crashes with it.
bigger would be better, there`s also a nearby similar expansion board by mutec, wich offers 16 MB but doesn`t work in the 2000 and XL....

I contacted MUTEC last week, and they no langer have any akai flash rom

...seems like 2MB chips are getting out of fashion.

Why not just install one of our SSD units - they go from 1GB up to 16GB and are much cheaper than that thing. You can not only install the os but probably all your samples and beats as well. Don't pay too much for a Flash ROM (if you can even find one) when we sell a much larger and cheaper solution.

The beauty of our CF-SSD is that you can pop out the CF card, put it into a USB card reader and load up all your samples, beats, etc before you install it. We will send it already formatted and with os 1.72 installed.

Wow. I never saw this before. Does this thing replace the Flash board or is it more like a scsi unit? It looks like it is placed on the connector for the flash unit but it also has that connector that looks like an internal scsi connector.

peace

No, it is completely separate from the Flash ROM. It is a SCSI device and mounts on the side of the
metal support wall. The install kit contains both the cabling to provide an internal SCSI connection
and a cable to draw power from the floppy drive plug (but the floppy still works). It installs very
easily and requires no modifications to the MPC at all.

Unless your MPC came with the Flash ROM, there is little point in paying what you'd have to pay for
an 8MB Flash ROM when you can buy the MPC SSD and get 8GB or 16GB (that is Megabytes versus
Gigabytes). We have them for the MPC2000 Classic as well as the MPC2000XL. More information is
available here:

MPC2000 Classic Solid-State Drive

MPC2000XL Solid-State Drive

flash rom is completely different.
samples on flash rom are always available for playing.

samples stored on ssd device will have to be loaded into ram to be played.

Sure, I know that but my point remains - why spend all that money for 8MB of "permanent" sample memory when you can have gigabytes of available samples and up to 32MB that will autoload in a flash (no pun intended) when you power on the sampler.

...interesting, but nearly 300 bucks for that kit shipped to germany is out of my range.