so, my empeg had been acting up on me for a while and now it's totally out of commission. in the past, the unit would power on and occasionally get "stuck" in what appeared to be standby mode... where the LED would pulse evenly and slowly and it would do nothing else, no matter how many buttons were pressed or held in.

now, that is ALL the unit will do. when i have it in the car or at home on the AC adapter it will accept power but do nothing else... the red LED inside the case and the blue LED at the rear will blink evenly and regularly almost every two seconds, but nothing else will happen.

the hard disk sounds like it spins up, but nothing else happens.

i'm seeking a null modem cable in order to check things out in Hyper Terminal (i've connected before, can't find the cable now. arg)

any thoughts on what this might be?