boomspot wrote:jahrome wrote:Not trying to be a prick...but if you have been reading the threads about the System Test problem, you should have all the knowledge you need to solve..and even prevent this problem.
What's the solution? buying a 32mb flash card? I've erased my 1gb card and tried installing v1.1 while holding the windows key.
The solution should be made a sticky & not buried in 9 pages of responses.
I agree. I made this comment before and it went ignored. Personally, I think it makes no sense to make people wade through nine pages after the 'solution' has been derived, expecially one as crippling as SYSTEM TEST. If it were stickied all of us wouldn't keep asking the same question and everyone else wouldn't have to give the same answer "do a search..." Just my opinion. I read through the pages ad nauseum and it was never clear to me through all the cross chatter if people had to keep applying the fix or not. Luckily 1.21 came out. In any event, I found that only the 32MB card works. I have a 1 GB card and kept getting wrong card too. I'm not certain if its is just a 32MB card is needed or if you really need the original. My gut says a 32MB card will suffice, but it may be hard to get one at retail. Based on the P/N, try this site for a 32mb card
http://www.pretec.com/index2/product/SS ... ercial.htm
As far as the 'fix' the basic method is to get the OS (1.21 is suppsoed to address system test) on the root of CF card from your desktop (either with a card reader or using a mounted MPC), then rebooting the MPC while holding doen the windows key. The recommended load procedure specified by Akai (using Load from the Load mode) has consistenly caused problems even with the latest OS. Only put 1 OS on the card. If you have 2 or more, the MPC will only receognize the most recent (the exception is 1.21, it doesn't seem to show when another OS is in the root.)
