Akai MPC X CR1220 Battery - What's it for?

I purchased a b-stock MPC X SE on Reverb. When I took it out of the box, something was rattling inside the MPC. I opened the SSD drive bay door and a little CR1220 battery fell out.

The MPC works fine but I'm concerned the battery might be something important on one of the PCBs.
Does anyone know what the CR1220 battery does on the MPC X?

It seems there is a CR1220 battery holder (under the heatsink) on the main PCB board.

it’s for RTC and it might cause authorization problems as the clock might revert itself to 01.01.1970 - not a biggie as the auth is crippled anyway and trips itself with or without it

Its for the system's clock, same shit that's been in PC motherboards since the dawn of time. If that popped out on its own, that's not good.

+2

Who's going for 3?

e. If that popped out on its own, that's not good.

Maybe it was fed up with the constant bugs and decided to jump ship out of the machine

It popped out once it heard roger linns newfound appreciation video playing in the backround

Updates on this.

#1 Akai confirmed that the battery is important. They sent a replacement MPC X SE. But...
#2 The replacement that arrived - the pad sensors were not working, so they sent another replacement.
#3 The third replacement - the entire top panel does not work (no lights, no button responses) and the infamous "no internal audio device found" error along with repeated "internal error" prompts.

this is not a fun experience

otoc wrote:this is not a fun experience

It's an Xperience