At another forum that I frequent a guy started a thread asking for a cd/mp3 player. Another guy popped in and said that he had a busted empeg that he'd unload for $200. I hopped in and said that I'd take it if teh other guy passed. He did.

The guy selling the empeg said that it had some i2c errors and that's why he was selling it. He unboxed it, loaded it up with music and then went to install it in his dash. He found out he'd have to cut some supports and braces and then hack in some crappy looking adapter for the dash so he boxed it and let it sit. When he unboxed it a few weeks ago it had this error.

He must have tried flashing the newest hijack kernel on it since it had one of teh newer hijack logos on it at boot. I loaded the developers release of 2.13 on it and then threw the newest hijack on there too. Currently uploading some music to it.

Wooohoooo! If it would fit in my wife's car I'd install it in a second but since it won't, I think I'll likely use it in my car until mine gets back from repair. Then I'll upgrade the drives and sell the thing on ebay. How much do you think I could get for a never installed unit with 2 60 GB drives and all the accessories?

Now excuse me while I go dance a silly dance at the delight over the best $200 I ever spent!

Two 60 gig drives? Then the guy did do a drive upgrade. I just hope he did everything right and hasn't damaged anything on the mainboard of the empeg.

Then again, $200 is a pretty sweet deal for that unit, even if it is flawed (sorry, couldn't resist ). You can always send it in for repair if it turns out to be damaged after all.

Did you check the serial # to make sure it isn't a stolen unit?

If you want to sell this unit as-is on ebay, I expect you can get $750-$800 for it. Perhaps even more.

Actually it only has a 20GB drive in it. I was thinking that I'd install 2 60GB drives to sell it.

And just as quickly I realize I shouldn't have gloated...

The i2C errors have returned. Maybe without hijack...

Keep it for spare parts - display, handle, facia, drive, cables, sled, etc. You can part it out for EASILY more than $200 if you determine that it's not worth fixing.

if you determine that it's not worth fixing.


I'm not sure there is such a thing!

Somebody on this board (who was that?) had his player repaired after it was stolen, thrown out on the street and then run over by at least one automobile.

tanstaafl.

The i2C errors have returned.

From a post by Hugo:

It's probably not outputting I2S - either that or the I2C is dead. Both I've seen; I2C is usually either a dead LVX04 or a bad pull-up resistor (the respacks sometimes have bad solder joints). I2S problem is usually a solder issue or a bad PEEL - we've got loads here though.

I2C problem is obvious if you look at a boot log, you'll see loads of I2C failures and the volume control will be v.e.r.y slow due to all the error printing.

I've only ever come across one dead DSP, and I have no idea why it died. We've got spares here, though.

Somebody on this board (who was that?) had his player repaired after it was stolen, thrown out on the street and then run over by at least one automobile

That was this thread. The pictures of the damage to his empeg seem gone though.