I just picked up the empeg today - ordred Sunday night from Rio in the US.

My system:

ASUS A7V-based Athlon 850 with 512MB of RAM.
Windows 2000 w/sp1
Other USB devices: Intellimouse Explorer, MS Internet keyboard Pro (with hub: MS Gamepad Pro & MS Dual Strike gamepad connected) and lastly, a Sandisk smartmedia card reader.
Ethernet: 3Com 3c905 10/100 NIC. DLINK 5-port 10/100 switch (all other devices connected to it are currently offline)
HD/CD: Adaptec 19160 SCSI160 controller with connected LVD Seagate drive, Plextor 40x CDROM & external 100MB ZIP.
Then a Soundblaster Live and an ATI Radeon 64MB vid card.

Just to kick around for a bit I first installed the software it came with: 1.02

Connected with patch cable to my 10/100 DLINK switch and nothing detected. Next tried USB. Nothing. Windows showed a driverless device in my removable USB tray area.

Uninstalled and fired up 2.0beta3. Same thing. Stopped an unplugged my Sandisk SD reader and the reconnected the empeg. This time Windows found it - I can see it listed in my hardware profile. Emplode still doesn't find any hardware. Not USB and not Ethernet. Not with both options selected and repeated scans, nor with only one selected and repeated scans.

Currently trying to access empeg.com is producing a DNS error, so I haven'tbeen able to download 1.03

Oh, when the unit is powered, the only thing on its display is the large Rio logo. None of the buttons do anything at all. I have no idea if this is normal/expected behaviour when used for the first time and no music has been synced.

Any help appreciated. I'm about to reboot and try again one last time before getting some sleep. I might as well try the serial connection while I'm at it.

Bruno