By koncepticon
Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:48 am
Ive tried to do some research before posting.. This is the second MPC4000 I have purchsed in the month of december. The first never showed, and now my christmas money is being ransomed by paypal till at least January. [stay the f away form paypal]
Here's the issue --= wanna guess? Aksys. omfg. I setup parallels, but only had windows 7 so gave it a try. it works fine, except the transfer continually gets interrupted, and says "file transfer failed. mpc abruptly powered down (or something) error 15.
i know with certainty the usb cable is good. I had to go through 18 sticks of RAM to find one 128MB chip that works and doesn't cause distortion when i load samples or record..
This is incredibly frustrating. Since i saw this happening with parallels, i went on another scavengar hunt and got a pentium 3 laptop running windows xp to do the transfer. It is no better, even more unreliable than the mac to parallels through a usb port on an external monitor type of connection. Im gonna just bet a dollar now that i will probably need to jsut do a careful bit of resoldering on the USB port next time she is opened...
Or is disconnecting in the middle of a file transfer) something that is common? I really hope not.. not sure why anyone would say this is the best mpc ever if you can't even load shit on to it without throwing it through the window because it **** up so much..
I got this one the second time around from a guitar center. It wasn't cheep, and looks mint. Im starting to wonder if they had anyone who was capable of proper testing, as they couldnt not even give me the specs before buying and of course, no ram and a most likely bunk hard drive. Luckily in this case, i can return within 45 days, but i dont want to return it i would rather make them fix it for me.. but i will need to figure out whats wrong first
if the majority, or better yet the 3-4 people who actually know whats up think its the hard drive, i can do that but may need info if only some brands work. Samsung does not seem to work (80gb Enhanced IDE)
i have the service manual also, still not seeing where there are any startup or diagnostic options.. is there anything like that?
Also why the heck does the blue one not come maxed out and with a cf card? Now i need to go look and see when they put that blue 2000xl on the market and sulk.. i could have just got one of those local for $350 in mint condition. sent a friend after it and he didn't even bite, meanwhile i just spent 1800 and have a level 4000 headache. I was thinking that it was at least slightly newer than the 1000, considering my mpc 1000 has been deteriorating more and more daily and just purchased a few months ago. Its running 16MB ram and no right on 1&2, but i can still throw a drum, a bass, and at least some hats on and bring them in on seperate channels. if it wasn't such a piece of shit form day one i wouldnt have had to rush into the 4000.. but on the other hand in my perspective, these are already getting a bit rare, and will probably start going back up in price soon 9unless they all keep **** up like this)
Please tell me there is an easy fix and im an idiot. id be cool w that.
Here's the issue --= wanna guess? Aksys. omfg. I setup parallels, but only had windows 7 so gave it a try. it works fine, except the transfer continually gets interrupted, and says "file transfer failed. mpc abruptly powered down (or something) error 15.
i know with certainty the usb cable is good. I had to go through 18 sticks of RAM to find one 128MB chip that works and doesn't cause distortion when i load samples or record..
This is incredibly frustrating. Since i saw this happening with parallels, i went on another scavengar hunt and got a pentium 3 laptop running windows xp to do the transfer. It is no better, even more unreliable than the mac to parallels through a usb port on an external monitor type of connection. Im gonna just bet a dollar now that i will probably need to jsut do a careful bit of resoldering on the USB port next time she is opened...
Or is disconnecting in the middle of a file transfer) something that is common? I really hope not.. not sure why anyone would say this is the best mpc ever if you can't even load shit on to it without throwing it through the window because it **** up so much..
I got this one the second time around from a guitar center. It wasn't cheep, and looks mint. Im starting to wonder if they had anyone who was capable of proper testing, as they couldnt not even give me the specs before buying and of course, no ram and a most likely bunk hard drive. Luckily in this case, i can return within 45 days, but i dont want to return it i would rather make them fix it for me.. but i will need to figure out whats wrong first
if the majority, or better yet the 3-4 people who actually know whats up think its the hard drive, i can do that but may need info if only some brands work. Samsung does not seem to work (80gb Enhanced IDE)
i have the service manual also, still not seeing where there are any startup or diagnostic options.. is there anything like that?
Also why the heck does the blue one not come maxed out and with a cf card? Now i need to go look and see when they put that blue 2000xl on the market and sulk.. i could have just got one of those local for $350 in mint condition. sent a friend after it and he didn't even bite, meanwhile i just spent 1800 and have a level 4000 headache. I was thinking that it was at least slightly newer than the 1000, considering my mpc 1000 has been deteriorating more and more daily and just purchased a few months ago. Its running 16MB ram and no right on 1&2, but i can still throw a drum, a bass, and at least some hats on and bring them in on seperate channels. if it wasn't such a piece of shit form day one i wouldnt have had to rush into the 4000.. but on the other hand in my perspective, these are already getting a bit rare, and will probably start going back up in price soon 9unless they all keep **** up like this)
Please tell me there is an easy fix and im an idiot. id be cool w that.