I upgraded to 2.0b3 last night. Everything seemed to go fine, and it appeared to be working properly on my desk plugged into the AC. This morning, I went on a trip and plugged it back into the car for the first time since upgrading. I saw the animated logo, saw the initial booting info screen, and saw it go to the standard playing screen. However, immediately after going to this screen, the screen went blank. I could hear it accessing the hard drive and the antenna was still up. I played around with it for a while and noticed that if I turned it off by holding the up button, the antenna went down, and I could get it to come back up, but nothing appeared on the screen and nothing was coming from the speakers. I tried blindly adjusting the volume, but that didn't seem to help. I wanted to take it back inside and downgrade, but I was late for a trip to visit some relatives a few cities over for lunch (the first highway trip I've had in a while, of course), so I had to listen to road noise instead of music for about an hour.

As I was leaving after lunch, I played with the empeg a little more, with no more success than before. So I left the parking lot intending to downgrade as soon as I got home. But before I even got back on the highway, probably less than 5 minutes after starting the car back up, I looked down and noticed that the screen was displaying stuff again. I think that it was showing an ``I've got no playlist queued'' type screen. So I played some stuff, and after turning the volume up, which was, oddly, all the way down, it worked fine for the rest of the trip.

So it seems to be working now, but I'm concerned that it didn't work before. I may have turned it off before the first leg of my trip, so that may explain the initial hour-long downtime, but I did stare at it for, it seems, minutes at a time trying to figure out how to make it work. Any ideas?