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By Bettersmit Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:10 am
Prophet Rayza wrote:is there a limit to the gb size of the cf card that the 2500 can use?? seems everyone is talking about 2gb cards, when i know sans disk makes 8gb cf cards, why wouldn't you just buy one 8gb rather than 4 2gb etc. Sorry if this has been asked 1000 times but ive had an mpc for about 2 days now lol

and if you can only use 2gb cards, can someone tell me why that is?

Cheers


35 pages and this question still hasn't been answered :|
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By Prophet Rayza Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:42 am
Bettersmit wrote:
Prophet Rayza wrote:is there a limit to the gb size of the cf card that the 2500 can use?? seems everyone is talking about 2gb cards, when i know sans disk makes 8gb cf cards, why wouldn't you just buy one 8gb rather than 4 2gb etc. Sorry if this has been asked 1000 times but ive had an mpc for about 2 days now lol

and if you can only use 2gb cards, can someone tell me why that is?

Cheers


35 pages and this question still hasn't been answered :|
35 pages from 2005 and onwards that i really dont have time to search through.

Any one able to answer my question please
By onthefly Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:14 pm
after initially buying a 128MB chip (doh!) I managed to get hold of:

Samsung 256MB PC133 SODIMM SDRAM Laptop Memory 144 Pin CL3

Displays 128MB but not tried it yet, fingers crossed
£9.99 on eBay :lol:
By StrangeUniverse Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:43 pm
hey guys i just got an mpc 500 and i know, maybe this question got answered already, but there are 35 pages and it would take me a lot of time to search through all these pages, so i hope it is ok if i ask following question: the user manual says that the mpc 500 can manage up to a max 2gb compact flash card, but maybe when the mpc 500 was released, 2gb was the maximum size of a cf, so is it possible that the mpc 500 can also manage up to a 8gb cf? i just wanto be sure what cf i should buy.

pz
By zenguru Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:12 am
16GB CF-card from A-Data seems to work. I paid ~50€ (~70usd), so the price vs. GB ratio is quite ok. No need to have a hard drive.
By DJSpaceGhost Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:24 pm
RAM Upgrade
Hey guys, I paid $12.24 (incl. shipping) for mine, works like a charm!!!! I saved so much money over that Akai crap. Ordered wed. evening, arrived sat. Seller states to have 160 left!


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0281570570

Update - New Post:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %26ps%3D42
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By lexicon Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:47 pm
DJSpaceGhost wrote:RAM Upgrade
Hey guys, I paid $12.24 (incl. shipping) for mine, works like a charm!!!! I saved so much money over that Akai ****. Ordered wed. evening, arrived sat. Seller states to have 160 left!


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0281570570


I just ordered from the same guy, new auction though. I hope mine works too!
By henryoakley Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:15 pm
Hi Guys, I'm the UK and have some RAM sticks if anyone wants them....

The RAM is PC 133 144PIN CL3 SODIMM 256MB, 1 by kingston and 2 by Samsung, all are low density so should work fine.

I bought them for the 1K i was gonna get, but decided to go in another direction in the end, so never tested, but all the right specs.

16GB CF Card and USB card reader too.

No charge, I have no use for them... maybe cost of postage would be nice via paypal or something?

1st come 1st serve.

All the best

Henry :)
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By henryoakley Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:56 pm
And the winner was... Deranger! who took the lot as no one else seemed to want them! Oh except for the Kingston RAM... I decided to keep that for my Roland MV8800... Hmm, i hope it works in there?! lol :)
By deranger Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:02 pm
henryoakley wrote:And the winner was... Deranger! who took the lot as no one else seemed to want them! Oh except for the Kingston RAM... I decided to keep that for my Roland MV8800... Hmm, i hope it works in there?! lol :)


Yeah, looking forward to expanding my newly arrived MPC500! :)


By the way, new MPCs and MV8800 don't use the same type of RAM. MPCs use a laptop style module SO-DIMM, with 144 pins, and the MV8800 uses desktop PC style DIMM, 168 pins! The similarity is that they're both SDRAM (an old technology - replaced by DDR a few years ago). See http://www.roland.com/products/en/MV-8800/specs.html

DIMM: 1 slot (168 pins, PC100 CL = 2 or PC133 CL = 3, 3.3 V, 128 M bytes, 256 M bytes, 512 M bytes), 128 M bytes (standard), Expandable up to 512 M bytes (replacement to 512 M bytes DIMM is required.)

I'll check if I have a SDRAM DIMM 168p laying aroung somewhere (should have at least a 256 Mb module) - I can mail it to you to return the favour ;)

Cheers,
Blaz