Loading the OS can't be this freaking hard - -is it?

What ever happen to just sticking in a disk and loading up an OS update.
is there an instructional link for loading a OS. I am defeated can someone help a brother out? Walk me through up dating the OS.

thanks in advance all,


aggravated in Atlanta

did you unzip the file on your computer before you bernt it to a disc?

There's insturctions in the PDF for OS Upgrade 1.20, I think.
Or are they still on the download page on Akai's site.

Whereever they are, DO WHAT THEY SAY,
cos otherwise you could corrupt your MPC4000's firmware and then it will have to go back to the shop.....

step 1: go here: http://www.akaipro.com/int/download/index.html
step 2: download your OS version of choice (1.70, 1.60, 1.51, or 1.45)
step 3: download your OS-LOADER program of choice (PC or MAC)
step 4: unzip that what needs unzipping
step 5: plug-in your USB cables in the right places, and make sure the right USB drivers are installed.
step 6: run the OS-LOADER utility... select the OS you want to upload... wait a bit... wait some more...
step 7: do what the program tells you to do...
step 8: restart your MPC if all went well...

that's about it... I believe... I take no responsibility if things go wrong (see Felines post...)

Roy

Tell me if I have this right.
- Download the operating system uploader to my pc first and unzip
-down load the OS 1.7 to my pc next.

- then plug in the usb into the back of my MPC4K not the front and to my pc.
- or burn OS on a disk and stick it into my MPC4K? when I do this hit load on the MPC4K I see the files. I hit do it and nothing happens.

What give folks?

tydawl wrote:Tell me if I have this right.
- Download the operating system uploader to my pc first and unzip
-down load the OS 1.7 to my pc next.

- then plug in the usb into the back of my MPC4K not the front and to my pc.
- or burn OS on a disk and stick it into my MPC4K? when I do this hit load on the MPC4K I see the files. I hit do it and nothing happens.

What give folks?

- yes
- yes
- yes: does your pc 'see' the MPC? you 've got the latast USB driver installed? the run the OS loader program.
- don't know... if this doesn't work, try another way, like via USB...

Thanks Lacertus for breaking it down. I still have a few questions but I need to end this post. I have two going on the same topic. Holla at me on the post above this one.

Mega thanks

Look,
for something like this,
DON'T ask other people,
instead you MUST read the AKAI DOCUMENTATION,
and do EXACTLY what it says,
otherwise you could render your MPC4000 INOPERABLE
and it will have to go back to a service centre
(which with the state of Akai at the moment, could take bloody months....)

If you find the documentation,
and want some clarification on what it means,
by all means ask us then!

press load,then go to disk ,juggle ur wheel if u got a internal cd rom burner in ur mpc then u see : update <f4> now press that button ,shit should work now..

one borgoe

I got the OS loaded and most of my complaints have been corrected just by upgrading the OS.


thank everyone for your help