Front panel buttons +remote stopped working

(Reposting this here because I assume not everybody bothers to read "General", and I was told this is the correct forum)

My problem: After returning from a 4 weeks holiday, my Empeg MkII does not work properly.
It plays music, and the display works (I don't know whether the dimmer is OK or not), but the buttons, rotary and remote do not work. Sometimes one or all these work for a short time after booting the machine, and then the stop working.
The same problems when running off AC power.

I have never removed the display board, and I opened the case to check that the connectors are still connected. The cables also looked OK at first glance.

I am running beta11 and Hijack 200-something. I have not done the capacitor-fix, and my player has earlier showed signs that it would really want this fix.

Right now, I've got the player into the "play all songs randomly" mode, so that I have music in the car, and I just pull out the unit if It is too loud or anything.
I haven't tried to sync it, because I seem to remember it may be put into "pause" mode by this, and It'll be difficult for me to get it out of there.

Any suggestions? Will I have to send it to Cambridge? (It's long past warranty)

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

This sounds like it might be a hardware problem of some kind, and I recommend that you contact support.

Just to be sure, please install a fresh copy of beta 13 without hijack and see if the problem goes away. If the problem does not go away, then definitely contact support.

Sounds like the blown fuse problem many of us have had.

Usually, this is self-inflicted (plugging display cable in misaligned..), but at least two others have reported situations similar to yours, where the fuse just went for no apparent reason.

It's a tiny SMT device. If the unit is still under warrenty, then send it in for replacement (contact David first), otherwise several of us here can give instructions for test/repair.

Cheers