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my mpc just started to freeze anytime i record a sequence. it seems to freeze right when im almost done recording and its about the loop. the overdub light comes on and then it just locks up. i tried the reset. im running jj os 3.06 i tried reloading that. and i tried taking the jj os off and going with the newest akai os but still the same problem. has anybody encountered this before or have any idea what this is? after searching around i couldnt find any information about this problem. also the mpc forums didnt have any answers either

Could it be a ram issue?

JSRockit wrote:Could it be a ram issue?

well the ram has been in there for awhile could it just become a problem like this? i could try taking it out. anything is worth a shot

well i took the ram out and recorded and it worked fine. i then put the 128 back in and it still works fine so i dont know. maybe it got unseated a bit. i dont really move it much. regardless thanks

Cool, I'm glad it worked out. I just couldn't think of anything else to try...but since the samples are in RAM on the MPC, it made sense.

JSRockit wrote:Cool, I'm glad it worked out. I just couldn't think of anything else to try...but since the samples are in RAM on the MPC, it made sense.

after about a day it started freezing up again. so the ram is bad. its actually akai ram. what are my chances of getting akai to replace this ram for free?

spoke too soon. its freezing up again without the ram. tried switching os, reloading the same os, doing the restart. not really sure what else it could be

Well, then maybe it's the 16mb internal ram?

JSRockit wrote:Well, then maybe it's the 16mb internal ram?

even when i record a midi sequence it freezes up. is there any easy way to test the internal ram?