RAM troubles

I just bought the Centon RAM - http://www.microcenter.com/single_produ ... d=0157922- and when installing, one of the clips that holds the chip in snapped. Its not completely broken off, but its not holding it in very tight. and it doesn't read 128megs, just the regular 16. i'm incredibly pissed, all 4 memory tests passed. Did I install it correctly, or is it the broken clip or what? thanks for the help.

could my warrantly allow me to get a new mpc just for that clip?

Man that's messed up. I would call Akai and tell them it broke, if it's under warranty then they should fix or replace it.

well, after beating on it for an hour, I decided it wasn't the clip, it was just my dumbass who didn't realize that the ram wasn't pushed in far enough (first time installing any type of ram ever)... so I pulled out the hammer and chisel and jammed the sucker in there and it worked. what a relief!

the thing that made me finally break down and buy the RAM is Mike Goins post on the akai mailing list and thought some of you might wanna read it...

"I finally got the memory expansion for the MPC1000 and was able to
fully appreciate the re-sampling capability. I was also able to successfully test the related `recording` capabilities. That is, I wrote a song on the
MPC1000, then `re-sampled/recorded` the entire song into a new single sample. I saved the new sample, which was the entire song, to the CF card as a WAV file. This was easily transferred to other equipment or PC.
This is really nice to not need an actual computer audio interface to
record since it can now be done right in the MPC. Just have to leave about
10 meg/min free memory for the final recording. One other thing worth noting: Since you can start the sequencer from the Record Screen regardless of whether you have analog in, dig in, or main outs selected. This could allow you re-sample through external equipment through the digital I/O's. Just connect an effects processor to the digital (or analog)
in/outs and select the proper record source and hit play. Sample streams out to the external gear and back in to the MPC for recording (hmm, I wonder what it would be like with a 2nd MPC connected doing the same thing)."

Glad you got everything straight.

bboy wrote:well, after beating on it for an hour, I decided it wasn't the clip, it was just my dumbass who didn't realize that the ram wasn't pushed in far enough (first time installing any type of ram ever)... so I pulled out the hammer and chisel and jammed the sucker in there and it worked. what a relief!

the thing that made me finally break down and buy the RAM is Mike Goins post on the akai mailing list and thought some of you might wanna read it...

"I finally got the memory expansion for the MPC1000 and was able to
fully appreciate the re-sampling capability. I was also able to successfully test the related `recording` capabilities. That is, I wrote a song on the
MPC1000, then `re-sampled/recorded` the entire song into a new single sample. I saved the new sample, which was the entire song, to the CF card as a WAV file. This was easily transferred to other equipment or PC.
This is really nice to not need an actual computer audio interface to
record since it can now be done right in the MPC. Just have to leave about
10 meg/min free memory for the final recording. One other thing worth noting: Since you can start the sequencer from the Record Screen regardless of whether you have analog in, dig in, or main outs selected. This could allow you re-sample through external equipment through the digital I/O's. Just connect an effects processor to the digital (or analog)
in/outs and select the proper record source and hit play. Sample streams out to the external gear and back in to the MPC for recording (hmm, I wonder what it would be like with a 2nd MPC connected doing the same thing)."

thanks for posting this