By davelee3
Sun Nov 27, 2022 10:07 pm
Hello fellow Akai MPC owners. I'm a newbie here on this MPC forum, so please bare with me. I purchased a nice condition "non-functioning" MPC X and hopefully someone here can help me get this awe-inspiring machine fully working again. When I press and release the power button, the pads light up from left to right, then they all stay lit for about 3 seconds before going out, but then nothing else happens. The touchscreen does not come on and no other buttons light up either, not even the LED meters light up. There's no sound and no function what-so-ever. It's as if I turned the power back off. The machine simply goes dead after the pads' initial sequential lighting goes out. This whole process only takes maybe 5 seconds from the time I press and release the power button to the time all the pad lights all go out. I suspect that the power supply, as it is definitely not the original Akai factory power supply. It's one of those cheap gray colored "ONN." brand power supplies that can be found on Amazon for around $20 and it has absolutely no electrical specifications or factory sticker with it's input/output power rating printed on it anywhere. I have a hunch that this Akai MPC X might not be getting enough juice from the power supply to boot up. So, I'm thinking about buying an "FSP O65-RBBN3" 19 volt, 3.42 amp, 65 watt brick style switching power supply to see if this solves the problem. Any ideas and/or advice will be greatly appreciated as I attempt to try and revive this non-functioning MPC X machine!