Okay...bought a USB Serial emulator and all is installed fine. I plugged the cable into the empeg with power (after starting hyperterminal) and i can see the player communicating fine in the hyperterminal display. But...

I can not get my keyboard to communicate with the player, in other words, the cursor justs flashes. First, I really do not need to do this now, as I do not have a working hard drive, but wanted to troubleshoot as much as possible before receiving my new drive. All settings are set correctly as mentioned in the FAQ (flow control off etc...).

I can see in the grey area on the bottom of hyperterminal where it says NUM CAP, I can see hitting the caps lock or num lock keys does change, so it is communicating somewhat.

I have read numerous posts and others have had similar issues. Any ideas?