So, I finally get a surround system and figured I'd hook up the Central to it. I haven't played with the Central in some time, though last I knew, it was working.

When I tried to hook it up and use it, I found the system to lock up all the time. The digital optical light wasn't on, the USB keyboard wouldn't work, no button response, etc. The only thing I could get it to do is load from the cd if I powered on AND held the Menu button. I could then attempt to reload the software. Sometimes it would work all the way through, sometimes it didn't.

I now have the unit somewhat operational, but it still seems flakey, like it takes a looong time to boot up (in the range of > 3 minutes). I tried to simply play a cd and it seemed to skip. Also, sometimes it just wouldn't recognize when the cd was inserted.

My next troubleshooting step is going to be simply to open it up and disconnect / reconnect IDE cables. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks,
Chris

P.S. Once I used the unit as an ftp client for a short time. I've since "restored as new" to version 1.10, so I don't think any remnants of my changes would still be around.