By freakwhensee
Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:15 pm
Help please! I'm a vet MPC user and I've been through the ringer having solved multiple issues with my MPC 2000 over the years, but I'm officially stuck on this one...
I turn on my MPC and the screen reads "MPC boot ROM v1.00". However, after this I don't get prompted with "Insert MPC 2000 disc" like I used to. Instead, it goes immediately to "Disc read error!!". The floppy drive clicks initially, but after the first click it makes no more sound. I have MANY boot discs.....I tried them all.....I even formatted brand new floppy's on my PC (FAT 16) and downloaded 1.72 onto them and tried those......still nothing. Lastly, I tried downloading 1.72 onto a ZIP disc seeing as I use ZIP to save and load sounds, just never to boot from. I read up on how to boot from ZIP....have both switches in the down position so that SCSI 5 is recognized and Termination is enabled, however, even with both switches down, the disc in the drive, and the drive powered on, my MPC doesn't cycle and recognize the drive. I still just get "Disc read error!!" after the initial "MPC boot ROM v1.00". Anyone know what's up with my machine??? And better yet, what I can do to fix it?!?!?!
I turn on my MPC and the screen reads "MPC boot ROM v1.00". However, after this I don't get prompted with "Insert MPC 2000 disc" like I used to. Instead, it goes immediately to "Disc read error!!". The floppy drive clicks initially, but after the first click it makes no more sound. I have MANY boot discs.....I tried them all.....I even formatted brand new floppy's on my PC (FAT 16) and downloaded 1.72 onto them and tried those......still nothing. Lastly, I tried downloading 1.72 onto a ZIP disc seeing as I use ZIP to save and load sounds, just never to boot from. I read up on how to boot from ZIP....have both switches in the down position so that SCSI 5 is recognized and Termination is enabled, however, even with both switches down, the disc in the drive, and the drive powered on, my MPC doesn't cycle and recognize the drive. I still just get "Disc read error!!" after the initial "MPC boot ROM v1.00". Anyone know what's up with my machine??? And better yet, what I can do to fix it?!?!?!