yes the player has worked fine for about 2 years before tis happened. prior to putting the player in my current car it sat idle for a while and one of the hard disks crapped out. so it is unplugged. the hard disk that crapped out was a 4 gig that was added to the origional 12 gig. thanks for the help!!

on a side note, if i unhook the memory wire from the wiring harness it does not change the way the player acts(acts same way with it disconnected or connected) and i changed the 3 amp fuse to see if that helped. so this makes sense