My MK2 could very well suffer from the same problem. As with veixl, it *only* happens in the car after extended play. Once it happens, 'now and next' displays empty tags for some (not all) songs in the list and the scrolling info line has 'no title'. Skipping to a previous track doesn't work at all (is refused) and skipping to the next track skips over a few tracks e.g. from 7 to 11, to 13, to 17, etc. When it freezes, it is within a second into a new (illegal?) track. Switching the unit off doesn't help; when it is turned on, it rebuilds the list and resumes at the exact place where it was stopped with the same behavior. Removing the player without putting it to sleep and pushing it back in again resolves the error.

I can't cause the error to happen at home. There, the player runs fine for days, Also the empeg-car board test runs fine (no error), even after leaving it playing wrapped in a towel for half a day (see below), but it detected only one disk (line 220). Is this normal?

0000 empeg-car board test version 0.04
0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-3mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-3mb, high word)
0130 testing ic 3 (4-7mb, low word)
0140 testing ic 4 (4-7mb, high word)
0150 testing ic 19 (8-11mb, low word)
0160 testing ic 32 (8-11mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0220 drive id IBM-DARA-206000
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 46
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

Anyone who can explain why yanking it out of the sled cures the problem and switching the unit off doesn't?

and eh, veixl, does this sound similar?


Henno
mk2 6 nr 6