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Thanks Tom. Here's the empeg kernel I got during one of the times the unit was able to boot (obviously).



Okay, this one was with the animation "removed". But it's really still there -- removal just means blanking out the animation "signature": 'ANIM' at the end of the file you posted. I put those chars back, and it boots and runs for me (with or without the ANIM).

The kernel in there is the special one that ignores the user-supplied animation, so I next replaced it with stock Hijack v466, and now it boots and plays the animation quite reliably.

So.. there is a hardware problem somewhere.

Cheers