All at the sudden my empeg will not start in my car, not at home. No power at all. No blinking led, no boot, nothing. Where should I look at? Thank you for your help...

You won't believe this. Or maybe you will. One of the HDD screws just fell on the MB, shortcutting something. I just had to remove it to have the empeg booting regularly again.
Now, I decided to use some duct tape to make sure the screws don't fall again. Any recommendation on what to use? Will duct tape eventually detach, or cause problems of other kinds due to temperature, for example?
I just though my empeg was dead... Terrible...

Blue lock-tite or clone. This is the stuff that you can break free with hand tools. Just don't use it and =really= torque down the screws.

--Nathan

You won't believe this. Or maybe you will. One of the HDD screws just fell on the MB, shortcutting something. I just had to remove it to have the empeg booting regularly again

You were astonishingly lucky. By all rights, that screw should have rattaled around and shorted and destroyed components that were expensive or impossible to replace.

You must be living right...

tanstaafl.

Yes. What they said. You are incredibly lucky that you didn't let the expensive blue smoke out of your empeg player. There is a FAQ entry on this, including the aforementioned suggestion of threadlock. Do not use duct tape.

The drive screws should have had little reddish paper washers acting as spacers under the hard disk. Those same little washers normally prevent the screws from ever coming loose.

If your unit is missing those, then your hard disk is very much in danger of "death by spindle pressure". Get some spacers!

Cheers

Thanks for the recommendation Mark! Spacers are in fact there, though! Maybe one of the was too lose to prevent screws from coming out... ?