Originally Posted By: larry818
It should still work.

Maybe I should restate that... my player hasn't been on ac power in years, yet had the hdd cable problem a couple of times. During those times, it would also not power off until I reseated the ribbon cable. I never touched ac power during that time, so the problem had nothing to do with the ac sense.

Right. The lack of response to power signals (other than complete loss of power), or button presses, is not a hardware issue. My bet is that the HD init happens before the kernel starts monitoring the various sensors (power and buttons), the error state prevents it from reaching that monitoring portion of the kernel, and that it's fixable in Hijack.

But I'm not exactly familiar with the internals... smile