I dont know if it actually finishes booting up. The last thing it showed during boot up is "loading visuals" and then it seems to go into the standby mode as usual only the blinking standby light doesn't illuminate and i am unable to turn the empeg on. I just formated the hard drive and reloaded my songs by the way, because when trying to add a second hard drive i plugged the wrong one up accidently formatted the original hard drive. SMART move huh? Anyway i just my empeg to work as it once did...HELP!!!

Can you get in via the serial console?

yeah...well, i guess. I just used emplode and loaded more songs on it.

I just used the hyperterminal and turned the empeg on by entering play. The buttons are fully functional and everything works as it should. But once it is turned off it can only be turned back on by the hyperterminal.

Alright, I'm just shooting in the dark here, but it seems like it's more likely config rather than something broken. Reinstalling the empeg software (v2 or v3alpha8 if you need ogg vorbis) will clean up almost everything that might be wrong =except= for bad entries in config.ini. If you've been playing games with the visuals, there might be a bad visual in there, like lavatory_floor in the v3alphas.

Installing hijack can't hurt, and makes it much easier to install different versions of the empleg software using the upgrader program.

--Nathan

i just reinstalled v2.00 and hijack. But nothing new. Where do i get v3alpha8 so i can try to see if it will help?

Forget the alpha for now - it will probably not help. If it's really have "upgraded" it successfully, it should just work (tm) unless there's a hardware problem or something else.

Instead get a boot log as detailed here and post it, so we can maybe see what's happening. That would be a good start at least.

Edit: Missed the bit about the buttons working after "waking" it up in emplode... Very strange.

Also please give us a copy of your config.ini

And yeah, don't mess with v3a8 just yet.

--Nathan

Okay i'll wait on that...heres the boot log atleast i think this is the boot log. What is "config.ini" though?
Thanks for the help!!

empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initDrive(s) appear to be already built. Skippi
ng.
Press return to continue anyway - anything else to start a shell.

warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
Making first drive...
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determ
hda4 is mounted.
Linux ext2 filesystem format
Filesystem label=
76096 inodes, 9737280 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
1189 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
64 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409, 663553,
1024001, 1990657, 2809857, 5120001, 5971969,

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem
done

real 0m41.828s
user 0m0.250s
sys 0m1.710s
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Speed checking /dev/hda3
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Read/write of 8Mb took 3.78 seconds
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Drive length is 19640880 blocks, seek testing
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll res
Seek test complete: 40.98 seconds.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd
Speed checking /dev/hda3
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Read/write of 8Mb took 3.21 seconds
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Drive length is 19640880 blocks, seek testing
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Seek test complete: 40.52 seconds.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda:
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Speed checking /dev/hda3
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Read/write of 8Mb took 3.36 seconds
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 30): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Drive length is 19640880 blocks, seek testing

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Lin

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg49 ([email protected]) (gcc versi
on 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #130 Mon Oct 22 18:52:07 BST 2001
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40103738)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 B
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004580).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, 9590MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:0e:9
a
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k init
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
r
player.cpp : 385:empeg
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000

r
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v422 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Mon Apr 4 22:44:52 EDT 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40103738) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (984k code, 20k reserved, 368k d
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options ena
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x99b78
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Forced AC/Home mode
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004680).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, 9590MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:0e:9
a
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesys
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initTimezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v422 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Mon Apr 4 22:44:52 EDT 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revi
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40103738) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (984k code, 20k reserved, 368k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x99b78
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Forced AC/Home mode
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004780).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, 9590MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:0e:9
a
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initTimezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v422 ([email protected]) (gcc versione0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Mon Apr 4 22:44:52 EDT 2005
em
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
Checking for extra DRAM:
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.AC 00:02:d7:28:0e:9
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40103738) 16MB DRAMa1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
R
Command line: mem=16mm found at block 0
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPSDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ra
Memory: 15008k/16M available (984k code, 20k reserved, 368k d

change_root: old
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039rying to unmount old root ... okay
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0el memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
I see
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
Mounting proc
Mounting first music
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli) mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options ena
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4
Press 'q' now to go into
Found custom animation at offset 0x99b78
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1 player.cpp : 38
Forced AC/Home mode3/04/01.
Scheduling custom logo.
Prolu
empeg display initialised.26 2003
empeg dsp audio initialised4086d000
hda
empeg dsp mixer initialisedK drive
empeg dsp initialised: FUJITSU MHM2100AT,
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.0-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12
SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x400800
empeg single channel IDE MAC 00:02:d7:28:0e:9
Probing primary interface...
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hd
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:0e:9
a
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initTimezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000

I also just installed the developer software instead of the consumer software. In case that changes things

Here is the diagnostic test

0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-15mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-15mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0220 drive id FUJITSU MHM2100AT
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 40
04f0 temperature ok
0500 usb detect
0510 usb rev 1012
05f0 usb ok
0600 ethernet detect
0610 ethernet rev 334b
06f0 ethernet ok
0700 cs4231 detect
0710 cs4231 rev a0
07f0 cs4231 ok
00f0 tests complete

I actually just turned it on throught he hyperterminal and unplugged the power instead of turning it off, so it will come on without me having to hit any buttons. BUT, when doing this i realized the remote also will not work any more.

By the way was anyone able to make anything out of the logs i gave? Or were they even the right logs?

Everything looks pretty normal there. Can you get a copy of config.ini

This describes how to get to it:
http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=mod...mp;faqent=72#72

I went to "Tools" , "Edit Config.ini" and then just copied and pasted what was on there already and got this.

[synchronise]
seq_num=9
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0
[display]
play_count=1
visual_names=1
caching=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=0
sort_playlist=1
[shuffle]
deduplicate=1
[hush]
hushpercent=20
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[tuner]
region=us
[Options]
Name=nahbrah
[User Info]
Email=
Phone=
Name=
[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=0.0.0.0
IPAddress=0.0.0.0
DHCP=1
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=60000
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=

Well, that looks pretty normal. Huh.

I'm not sure that I can visualize exactly what's happening, because all of the output looks reasonable. You have a mlord dock, right? Can you slowly describe what happens when you apply power to the player when it's not in the dock? Do you have telnetd installed? Have you tried running EmpegFace to see what it shows?

--Nathan

What's your custom logo? I'm clutching at straws here, but have you tried different boot logos? Could a logo be corrupt?

Nothing in a custom logo could cause a boot up problem as far as I know.

No, i don't have a dock, but when i apply power it boots up and goes to the standby screen. The standby light that should normally blink after boot up does not come on after boot up. The player cannot be turned on after boot up unless i use the hyperterminal.

no, i don t think its the buttons because after i enter play in the hyperterminal and the player is on the buttons are fully functional.

I got it from the list of Serial Port Commands by pushing the space bar and then pushing enter in the terminal it tells the empeg to "play"

And when you do this, the screen comes on?

Yep, and everything works as it should EXCEPT the remote (the original Rio remote) will not work and the standby light that, if i remember correctly, should turn off when the player is on, stays lit.

If it were in a docking sled, I'd say that your problem was 12 volts applied to the amp remote wire.

Otherwise, you're talking about a very strange hardware fault, and Rob or Stu needs to take a look at it.

Try this temporary fix:

When the unit is booting up, press the keys rapidly, Especially at the part when the unit turns off. I have the same problem, and until I can spare the time to find the short that is keeping my screen dim, and keeping it occasionally from booting up past the first screen, this seems to help by keeping the voltage going.

It sounds ridiculous, but it worked for me.

Whoa, I haven't read this forum in a while. "nahbrah" is my brother... thanks guys for helping him track this down, I was stumped.

Kyle... Stu, as Tony mentioned, is in Mandeville, so you might wanna talk to him and arrange a meet up. It's about as far as N.O. on the other side of the lake.

This is true, i am his brother...while listening to the empeg last night a message popped up for the first time....."segfault error".....maybe this will help

"segfault error" occurs "normally" from time to time for me when running v3alpha software. But it should be pretty rare on a stock player running v2final.

Cheers

This player is now at my house, as is Kyle, and I'm trying to troubleshoot it. It does exactly as he stated... really strange stuff.

Summary:
As the empeg boots, the screen is normal other than a faint increase in brightness followed by a slow dimming before it blips out and goes black once the player is running. From there, black screen, no Stdby LED, no button controls. To get the display to wake up you have to start the player playing via hyperterminal, then it pops right up, though the stdby LED stays on. The display is VERY dim, and on forced DC mode, the dimmer settings have NO effect at all.

EDIT: I also just checked his config.ini and it is really stripped down... does this mean anything:

[synchronise]
seq_num=25
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0


John... have you had any luck tracking this down?

Any other troubleshooting tips? What would cause a constant dim screen? I'm going to open it up and see if I find anything in the mean time.

EDIT 2: I'm also checking the fuse mentioned in thie FAQ entry

Well, the display capacitor would be suspect. It can cause all sorts of odd behavior, but it doesn't seem like it could cause everything. Have you tried starting the player with -i?

Matthew

AH HA! Turns out the fuse mentioned in that FAQ entry is indeed blown. No continuity, while the other two fuses are fine.

Looks like I'll have to scrounge up one of those fuses, and Tony, you might want to add these symptoms to that FAQ entry once this is fixed... if it indeed fixes it.

Replaced the fuse (after botching the first attempt by breaking off the tip of the new fuse... thank goodness I know myself well enough to always order spares!).

Empeg is good as new. PHEW! So Tony, if you get a chance you might want to add these symptoms to the FAQ.

Remind me again after the weekend...