Those messages all look pretty normal to me. Everything you described is normal behavior (freezing after the memory test, etc.).

What we need to see now, is the serial output when the "pause" errors are actually happening. The fact that you only get the errors in the car is troubling, and I'm now suspicious that the wiring might not be feeding the Empeg enough juice to keep both drives properly spun-up.

Remember that if you're trying to use the serial connector in the car, the default baudrate is only 4800 (to make it more compatible with other third-party in-car serial applications). There is an entry you can add to CONFIG.INI on the player that will let you put the in-car baud rate back up to 115200, and I recommend you do this if you're going to diagnose problems on the serial port while in the car.

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Tony Fabris