When one of my friends fixed this problem for another one of my friend’s empeg He said the problem was due to a shady soldering job during manufacturing. I know nothing about smt stuff, but this guy does re-work of smt boards all day long. It took about 3 seconds to fix. Note: he used a microscope when he was soldering the empeg.

That picture is exactly what my buddy’s empeg looked like. Except his were about 6 pins broken. His lesson was not to toss the empeg to his bed, letting it bounce off to the floor.

Then, another one of my friend’s empeg has 1 pin disconnected, and if you slightly push on the ide connector to the mainboard, you can hear a clicking. We still haven’t fixed it, but I pushed down on the connector and he hasn’t seen the no hard drive found error message again.

Then, on my MK1, I had a bad header that empeg fixed for me. I never opened it to look at it. But I would get a no hdd found error, or the music would stop playing when I would hit a bump in the road. Most of the time if I gently dropped it onto my lap, or gently slapped the empeg on my leg, and put it back in the cage, it would start working again.

Well, that’s my empeg header saga, its not that bad, and I’m sure it could be a lot worse.