No Serial Number

I am a brand spanking new empeg owner. I decided to buy one ever after reading the EOL messages. This thing just really impressed me.
I did find it odd though that there is no serial number on the back of my Mark2 (RioCar). The box is just empty. The only
number that I found that might be the number was 90260227. I found this on my invoice. Is there any way to confirm that this is indeed my serial number?

Thanks.

mine just has a sticker on the bottom 010101280

32Gig MK2 In 2001 VW Golf TDI

The only number that I found that might be the number was 90260227. I found this on my invoice. Is there any way to confirm that this is indeed my serial number?

No, that doesn't look like a valid serial number, unless they've changed the scheme. Try going to the About menu on the player (it's an item in the main menu), then let it scroll down a bit - the serial number should be in there.

If you find it, please consider posting it here. It encodes the month and year when your player was manufactured plus a 'sequence number' - 1 for the first player, 2 for the second, and so on. We used to be able to tell from that number how many players were sold to date. Now this is no longer possible since there are multiple distribution channels but it still might give us some idea.

Borislav

Ok. Found it on the About screen and confirmed that the sticker on the bottom, or at least one of them, is the serial number. I am the proud owner of #40104260. Thanks for the
help guys... although I still find it strange that it wasn't printed next to where it actually says "Serial Number"

Thanks again.

I am the proud owner of #40104260.

Interesting. If I read this correctly, it says "manufactured in April 2001, player #4260". Depending on how you read an earlier post by Rob, there are either about 3000 or about 4000 empegs/Rios total.

Maybe the whole EOL announcement was just a marketing trick to get these babies to sell like hot bread while they continue to manufacture them as fast as they can? I wish.

Borislav

Mine was in march of '01 ... #2603 ... they must have been busting them out at that time to get a couple thousand out in a month.

g

RioCar (40Gig) Blue/Red/Green
'01 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro

Mine was in march of '01 ... #2603 ... they must have been busting them out at that time to get a couple thousand out in a month.

My interpretation might be off then.

Or maybe not - I found the post by Hugo that defined it.

Borislav

Edited by borislav on 12/10/01 08:21 AM.

You can always verify your serial # with Frank's Displayserver too. It is on the System Information screen.

-Trevor

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Mk 2, Green 12GB, Tuner 080000349

Mine, like it's owner, doesn't play by the rules it's #090000695 the date is right (Sept. 2000) but I have a Mk2 looks like it would have a 2 in there somewhere. The serial number was on a sticker on the back near the jacks below a barcode.
I always thought the player just got the number from the owner when Emplode was installed, you have to type it in at the beginning of the install.
BTW-On the players 'about' menu what is the seemingly cryptic MAC 00:12:00:d7:12:02:b7?

#695-Mk2/8 colors-12Gig w/Tuner- awaits v2.x & Voice Recog.

Edited by jwickis on 13/10/01 05:22 AM.

The MAC address is the physical, hardcoded, address of the network adapter. Every network adapter has its own unique MAC. It is basically used to communicate with other network adapters at the physical hardware layer whereas IP addresses, which are associated with the MAC addresses, are used at a different layer of network communication... Protocol layer I think.

BTW-On the players 'about' menu what is the seemingly cryptic MAC 00:12:00:d7:12:02:b7?

That cryptic number is the network interfaces unique MAC (Media Access Control) address, all manufacturers of NIC's have to encode this into thier products. This MAC address, (a hardware address) uniquely identifies each node of a network, the MAC layer (OSI reference model) interfaces directly with the network media, thus all network devices require different MAC address.

Just to get the details correct...
Layer 1 Physical layer is your cable and the electricity and modulation and stuff
Layer 2 Link layer is Ethernet, which has the MAC addresses
Layer 3 Network layer is IP, which has IP addresses
Layer 4 Transport layer (Internet layer) is TCP, which has TCP ports
Layer 7 is for instance HTTP, which has URLs.
(Layers 5 and 6 are usually contained in layer 7)

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

Commonly known as the "Seven Layer Burrito (tm)" theory of networking (assuming your country of residence is foolish enough to tolerate Taco Bell).

-Mike

Mercy!!! I just finished taking a Cisco certification exam. "Please Do Not Throw Stale Pizza Away!"*

* For anyone unfamiliar with the 7 layer model, that translates to Physical, DataLink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation and Application layers, in that order.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)
SN# 030103046 (10GB Blue - Emergency Spare)

Better explanation of the seven layer phenomena

-Mike

Greetings!

An excellent reminder! But, alas, this was Cisco certification, and we were forced to use stale pizza. Actually, depending on the age, stale pizza can be better than Taco Bell...

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)
SN# 030103046 (10GB Blue - Emergency Spare)

LOL! (Especially GSM remark)

Actually, TCP/IP suite maps very well to OSI model (and has, err, inspired it). True, particular protocols OSI proposed were virtually never used (I remeber that, once upon a time, ICL insisted on them). They were a bit better designed (because they could learn from TPC/IP ones), but were overly complicated and, well, as I said, nobody used them .

The model is still valid and usefull, though, and the life would generally be easier if a well defined set of protocols for session and presentation layers existed (as they to for the lower 4), in stead of every application inventing their own.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green