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By Rendr Sun May 25, 2008 8:36 am
Just some info incase someone else has the same prob, coz i found the solution hard to find but easy to fix.
I was unable to load anything off of my cf card, as in nothing was appearing on the load screen as if my cf card was empty. Also, when going to the load screen with a cf card inserted, the mpc would just freeze.
So, after getting some advice from someone on this forum(cheers mate, wouldn't have found this otherwise) i checked to see if any of the pins in the cf card slot were broken or bent. All looked fine...from the outside. All pins looked as if they were all present, but after sticking a small screw driver into the slot i discovered that one pin seemed to be missing. Thats what i thought anyway.
I then took the actual cf card/headphone board out, in anticipation that i could order a new one and my mpc would be ready to just install the new one. But then, because i was able, i looked a little closer at the pins, and found that the "missing" pin had just been pushed through and out the back end of the slot, which is why it looked like it was still there from the front. Easy! All i did was push the pin back through, made sure it was all straight, and put the board back in the mpc.
Everything now works fine.
Spewin i'd already placed my order for the new board though....oh well.
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By Lampdog Sun May 25, 2008 9:33 am
Cards need to be pushed gently into slots, not just slapped in there. Not saying thats what you did but I know a few people who just slap em in and that's that. A dangerous practice.
By Rendr Sun May 25, 2008 10:37 am
agreed, i try to be careful with my cf cards, but this could possibly be cause of one of the pins being pushed through. I got an 8gb card in there at the moment so i'm planning on keeping that in there and just tranferring backups to the comp through the mpc rather than switching cards all the time or using a card reader to transfer to the comp, which is how i worked before. Damn i love that 8gb card :)
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By BIG LARRY Tue May 27, 2008 4:20 am
Rendr wrote:agreed, i try to be careful with my cf cards, but this could possibly be cause of one of the pins being pushed through. I got an 8gb card in there at the moment so i'm planning on keeping that in there and just tranferring backups to the comp through the mpc rather than switching cards all the time or using a card reader to transfer to the comp, which is how i worked before. Damn i love that 8gb card :)


good job, 8gb should be enough over adding an hdd.