Okay, a number of people, including His Esteemed Faqness, have reported temporary IR lockups (lasting 10-20 minutes) on their players in recent betas.

Unfortunately, it never seems to happen for me, and I'm one of the few around here who could diagnose one if it did happen. Darn.

But.. based on Tony's lucky coicidence of having such a lockup with a Hijack PopUp message at the same time, I can only conclude that the cause, as highly improbable as it seems (totally friggin impossible), is that the O/S "jiffies" counter must be stopping for whatever reason.

So.. As of Hijack v221 (now available), there is code within Hijack to detect such an occurance, and to display a pair of suitable messages on the screen.

Please, everyone, install this update, and report to me (both on the BBS and directly if you ever see one/both of these messages on the display of your RioCar/Empeg:

    ERROR: stuck jiffies

or

    unstuck at 500.34 secs   (any numeric value is fine)

Also don't forget to say which version of player software was installed, eg. v2.00-beta11.

Thanks