Hi,

My MKII player wroks just great and has done for over two years. However, I've had problems with the serial port. About 18 months ago the serial port stopped working, as evidenced by garbage being spewed out to Hyperterm, I sent the unit back to jolly ole England and it was promptly repaired and returned.

Recently, the same problem has re-occurred, thus preventing me from upgrading to 3.0 (yea I'm slow to upgrade brom Beta-13). I have two questions:

1) Now the SonicBlue is dead and gone, who can repair the unit.

2) What could cause the serial port to blow during normal operation and how can I prevent it in future, as a day without my Empeg is like a day without breath.

Any sane suggestions would be greatly appreciated