Spontaneous Boot

Posted by: tadzio

Spontaneous Boot - 11/08/2000 13:52

This is not a serious problem, but it happened twice to me now, so I thought I'd report it anyway.
My Mk II is sitting here on my desk, A/C powered, connected to the PC over Ethernet only (no serial, no USB). I left it in standby mode (blinking LED) for some time - 24 hours or so. Twice now it spontaneously woke up and started playing, without any input from my side. Any idea what could cause such a behaviour? Can some special packet over Ethernet wake up the player?

Daniel

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Posted by: eternalsun

Re: Spontaneous Boot - 11/08/2000 15:31

Must be those rogue packets flying around the network. Tony, time to reboot the Internet...

Posted by: tadzio

Re: Spontaneous Boot - 11/08/2000 18:50

'Flying' is the right word... I found that not even the Ethernet was connected to the empeg, just power and nothing else.
Or is there a wireless LAN secretly built into the empeg?
Daniel



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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
Posted by: Liufeng

Re: Spontaneous Boot - 11/08/2000 22:07

I could just be stray IR from another Remote control used nearby even as far away as a neibors living room if the windows and conditions are just right. Something to think about anyway.

Reg_2845 Mark 1 #00173, Mark 2 #119
Posted by: dionysus

Re: Spontaneous Boot - 11/08/2000 22:23

na; it's aliens..
-m

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units
Posted by: alear

Re: Spontaneous Boot - 12/08/2000 00:33

Maybe it was feeling neglected.

There are people here that would kill for the opportunity to listen to it for 10 minutes. And you leave it off!?!

You are probably the only person that will notice the "leave it off" bug.

Alex Lear