how much for a new 3000 motherboard?

how much for a brand new mother board im interested in knowing.. a buddy of mine knows a guy sellin a 3000 but the shit wont turn on no leds no nuthin, could be the power supply could not be ...if the board is fried i wanna know how much itll cost ?

djimpak wrote:how much for a brand new mother board im interested in knowing.. a buddy of mine knows a guy sellin a 3000 but the **** wont turn on no leds no nuthin, could be the power supply could not be ...if the board is fried i wanna know how much itll cost ?

I had the same shit hasppen with my S20. I heard Akai has a problem with some of them with the power supply. I would get it checked out before i buy a new motherboard. Bring it to Guitar Center or somethin and ask em to check it.

The mainboard in an MPC3000 is a robust piece of electronic equipment and heavily protected by design.

First area of failure to look for in an MPC3000 if it won't fire up is the power supply.

Some times a 50cent fuse can give the impression of a $1000 problem.

As for the price of a new mainboard You would never buy one...

Instead and if it was confirmed to be faulty then you would identify the fault and repair it at board level.

Rohan.

mpc3000le wrote: Some times a 50cent fuse can give the impression of a $1000 problem.

Mos Def. Even if dude wants to sell it for 200 bills, it would be a steal if all it was a blown fuse.

Yea.

And if you cant get it to work you can use it as a decoration.

If you did want to know anyways, $2800 CDN dollars. Do your appropriate conversions.

thanks for the input n advise guys...ill look more into it

If you can't fix your MPC3000 and believe the mainboard to be seriously fried ( not likely ) then it will be better financial sense to purchase another machine.

Rohan.

A agree with Rohan. Unless you are capable of repairing it yourself, I doubt the purchase would be worth it.

Many repair shops (including the one Akai US used to send repairs to) charge about $80/hr for component level troubleshooting. It is easy to rack up many hours on something like that. I would never buy a broken piece of gear unless I am certain I can fix it myself.

I have become rather acquanted with the local pawn shops and do some repairs for them. For shops that I do not do repairs for (some company policies do not allow it), they let me open it up and probe it there in the store so I can make an evaluation of what I would pay for it.