By tapedeck
Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:41 pm
so my xl glitched out last night.
it went through a routine i've heard before where it just started playing all the sounds in memory in a sort of random fashion.
however what the screen did was new to me...it displayed a message and a progress bar, something to the effect of "writing to f-rom".
once the progress bar was done, it said "FROM Boot write complete!". (pic below)
at that point, it locked up. i had no choice but to power it down.
now when it boots without a disk, it say "insert mpc2000xl disk!', like it needs a boot disk. if i boot it with a card with the os on it, it loads the os fine and proceeds to work as normal.
but it would not boot without that os anymore.
90% of the threads on this site regarding this go nowhere - they either end in RTFM or 'update your os'...neither of which are the problem.
anyway, within one thread i found links to another thread that contained the answer. i didn't know you could actually write the os to flash easily, though i assumed you must since that's what it looked my mpc did while it was glitching.
(from viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27200)
i actually skipped the reboot, just loaded the OS from the LOAD menu.
the only other thing that looks close to an answer is rohan (mpc3000le) popping in every now and then saying the FLASH ROM ('FROM' or f-rom) is corrupted, and he has recovery chips. i wonder if these are the same chips that vst sells, the 'os' and 'boot' eproms?
so, im posting this for posterity and to hopefully help the search function a little bit if someone else runs into the same issue.
thanks Bravo
it went through a routine i've heard before where it just started playing all the sounds in memory in a sort of random fashion.
however what the screen did was new to me...it displayed a message and a progress bar, something to the effect of "writing to f-rom".
once the progress bar was done, it said "FROM Boot write complete!". (pic below)
at that point, it locked up. i had no choice but to power it down.
now when it boots without a disk, it say "insert mpc2000xl disk!', like it needs a boot disk. if i boot it with a card with the os on it, it loads the os fine and proceeds to work as normal.
but it would not boot without that os anymore.
90% of the threads on this site regarding this go nowhere - they either end in RTFM or 'update your os'...neither of which are the problem.
anyway, within one thread i found links to another thread that contained the answer. i didn't know you could actually write the os to flash easily, though i assumed you must since that's what it looked my mpc did while it was glitching.
BRAVO wrote:Use a fresh formatted (FAT) floopy or zip...Download a fresh OS from the akai site -1.14.
Extract it directly to the disk
Put the disk into the MPC.....Before u turn it on, hold down REC & OVER DUB then turn it own (All at the same time). The MPC should boot off the disk perfect (If the OS is fine and the disk is fine)
Then go into the load screen and load that OS. It will now rewite it the the installed flash and prompt u to press any key to restart when complete. On doing that, the MPC should boot up as normal.
Try it
Bravo
(from viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27200)
i actually skipped the reboot, just loaded the OS from the LOAD menu.
the only other thing that looks close to an answer is rohan (mpc3000le) popping in every now and then saying the FLASH ROM ('FROM' or f-rom) is corrupted, and he has recovery chips. i wonder if these are the same chips that vst sells, the 'os' and 'boot' eproms?
so, im posting this for posterity and to hopefully help the search function a little bit if someone else runs into the same issue.
thanks Bravo
