Major start up Issue with my MPC1000 - White Noise

Hi there, this is my first post so go easy folks.

I have an MPC1000 running JJOS ver 3.12 and it's just had a meltdown!!

Basically it's making a constant noise, kind of like white noise, but more like it's running through every sample that is currently loaded and playing a fraction of a second of each one all at once. Also the CPU seems to have shat the bed, and none of the controls are working, I just click the mode button and it scrolls through all the functions like program/mixer/step edit/effect etc without actually pressing the pads that correspond to those functions.

I did a search and the saw some people reported their machines made white noise, and this was a ram issue, but I've tried removing the ram chip, and it still does the same thing. I've also tried re-setting the machine to factory preset, re-installed the akai OS and re-installed JJOS, none of these things have worked.

Please, if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know because right now I'm all out of ideas and am getting pretty desperate.

Thanks in advance.

Maybe there's something wrong with your pads? Try disonnecting and reconnecting them.

check the pins in the flash card slot... seems like one of them might be bent and making contact with another...

Thanks for the feedback fellas,

mp3 wrote:Maybe there's something wrong with your pads? Try disconnecting and reconnecting them.

Hmm, yeah maybe, I'll have a look at that, I'm a bit daunted about stuff like that, not being overly mechanically minded, is this a fairly straightforward thing to do?

crossings wrote:check the pins in the flash card slot... seems like one of them might be bent and making contact with another...

I tried booting up the machine without the flash card installed, and it still did the same thing. When it starts up, it pre-loads the projects stored on the internal HD (I know I can probably re-set it to not do this, but I never got round to researching how to do this).

I actually took the machine to my nearest Guitar & Keyboard Centre and asked their 'MPC guy' to have a look. He had never seen this happen before but he suspected it was probably something to do with the connectors on the control buttons. I've also emailed Akai to see if they can help. I've got a horrible feeling this is gonna hit my pocket, so if anyone else has any suggestions, before I have to spend any money, please let me know.

Thanks guys.

D-Stroke wrote:Thanks for the feedback fellas,

mp3 wrote:Maybe there's something wrong with your pads? Try disconnecting and reconnecting them.

Hmm, yeah maybe, I'll have a look at that, I'm a bit daunted about stuff like that, not being overly mechanically minded, is this a fairly straightforward thing to do?

Yup easy as pie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phEsW9KtNaY