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Right I had a play with the jumpers.

With all the blue ones removed (they are the ones nearest the power socket) I get no clicking and no flashing LED

With the 2 x 6v jumpers in place but the one 3v jumper removed, I get the clicking but the blue USB LED on the rear flashes rather than the blue LED on the front.

With the single 3v jumper in place but the 2 6v jumpers removed I get the clicking but no LED's flashing.

Did this player ever come back to life again? I'm afraid I'm not asking out of the usual Empeg attentiveness to customers, but because my own car-player, 80000211, has just gone down with exactly this problem. It was plugged-in and sleeping quietly upstairs, I unplugged it and took it downstairs and plugged it in, and it started with the tick, tick, tick problem.

I've removed the main board, and fiddled with the jumpers, and got exactly the same results you did above. No foreign bodies are anywhere in evidence

Peter