I did manage to upgrade my empeg-car to software ver 1.01 from a Win 98 PC, so the unit is fine and the supplied serial cable is fine, however the upgrade utility runing on Win 2000 is NOT fine.
I added more albums via USB and the sync worked Ok first time. So no further problems to report.

A quick question though...
If you have USB why would you need 10Mb Ethernet since USB appears to be faster ?
Now if the empeg-car had 100Mb Ethernet that would be different.
The price difference between a 10Mb NIC and a 100Mb NIC is sod all so why limit a top piece of kit to old technology when there is a requirement to load 10's of Gb of music before you can use it.

CJ.

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