so my simm slots are damaged...

am i completely fuked?? do i have to get an entirely new motherboard? Or is this too technical of a question? If anyone can help me I damn sure would appreciate it, cause the one place i found that would look at it charges fukin 60 an hour, and thats diagnosis time as well...

Which mpc do u own? I sale parts and fix on mpcs. Email me at [email protected] for more info. I have a motherboard for the MPC2000. Get at me.

ONe

vice wrote:am i completely fuked?? do i have to get an entirely new motherboard? Or is this too technical of a question? If anyone can help me I damn sure would appreciate it, cause the one place i found that would look at it charges fukin 60 an hour, and thats diagnosis time as well...

"fukin 60 an hour" is cheap for surface mount re-working on a specialised piece of kit.

Certainly cheaper than a replacment mainboard !

Rohan.

Thats true, i'm just looking for a miracle at this point

vice wrote:Thats true, i'm just looking for a miracle at this point

Just for the sake of others so their SIMM slots don't suffer a similar fate to yours ...

WTF did you do to break them ?

Rohan.

Actually there is no visible damage and I have no idea why they don't work anymore. I thought i had a bad ram chip, but i took the chip to guitar center and they put it in a different machine and that machine read it. So somehow I think i fried the slots. Could it be anything else??

Did you try OTHER ram?

i had already had one chip in there that had been working fine until one day it didn't read the chip anymore. Then i bought the new one. Do chips go bad often?

no often but it's very possible.

SIMM Chips with MPC 2000xl 's do go bad.... It is due to heat dissipation from the power supply . If you have your MPC on for long periods of time and / or it is not on a flat surface the heat inside the unit near the simm slots can cause the ram to go bad. This happened to me and I tried different ram ( They have to be matching pairs ) and it solved the problem. This info is from VST as I had a hunch this was the problem and they confirmed my assumptions. Try new ram, it could save alot of time and money.....

vice wrote:Actually there is no visible damage and I have no idea why they don't work anymore. I thought i had a bad ram chip, but i took the chip to guitar center and they put it in a different machine and that machine read it. So somehow I think i fried the slots. Could it be anything else??

Oh ... so you have not "damaged" the slots.

As the other posters have advised.

Change your RAM. All of it.

Rohan.