S2000 won't turn on, display lights up but no text or LEDs

Hi!

I have an old used Akai S2000 that's been gathering dust for a while because it just won't work properly. When I go to turn it on the display lights up, but nothing else shows. No LEDs, no floppy drive, no text, nothing. When I got it, it used to do this every so often but after leaving it for a while it would start working again. Now it just doesn't work at all; it's been like this for nearly a year now.

I did read the S1000 series had some problems with its power supply with the same symptom occuring; is that what's going on? Do I have to get a certain PSU to get my S2000 working again?

rebuilding the power supply is easy, and because it's a separate, discrete unit, there is little risk of damaging anything else in the machine.
either do it yourself if you have a soldering iron or take it too the nearest electronic repair dude in your neighbourhood. basically, the capacitors just need to be replaced.

Not sure what area you're in, *but* if you're in the L.A. area, you can take it to Forat electronics, he's the vintage sampler wizard (he did a lot of the engineering/programming for the original MPC60 back in the day).

The cost of getting an S2000 serviced will exceed the cost of buying another one.