Ok. So I fnally got around to trying to fix this but I'm having some issues. You linked me here which had a link to filesystem errors, which is I think more of my problem. As explained by the line "This error can also be caused by rebooting the player during the middle of a synch operation, either on purpose or accidentally because of a crashed synch", which is what happend to me. Now mine hangs on "Building Playlist database..."

I was able to connect to the empeg with HyperTerminal and verified that I had the developer image of the 2.00 beta 13 player software. To correct the problem, I'm trying to follow these instructions:

"To correct this error, make sure you're using the developer firmware on the player, use hyperterminal to get to a shell prompt with either a Q or a Ctrl-C command, then enter the following at the shell prompt:

ro
umount /dev/hda4
umount /dev/hdc4
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync
"

My problem is with
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use hyperterminal to get to a shell prompt with either a Q or a Ctrl-C command
. When I power on the empeg in Hyperterminal, it goes through a whole bunch of stuff then pauses for a while after the following:

empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComðStarting
player
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

It sits there while the empeg shows "Building Music database...". After its done churning through that, all of this scrolls:

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Sorry if that was too much info. My problem is that at no time can I get "q", "Ctrl-C" or "Ctrl-Break" to work. I can enter the commands but nothing happens. After that last chunk of text scrolls by, it just hangs there. The player shows "Building playlist database..." and I can't get HyperTerminal to respond to any commands. I hit q (enter) and it just shows a q on the screen, Ctrl-Break shows up as ^@.

Did I overlook some small step? Am I entering the commands into Hyperterminal the wrong way? I've never really used the program or had any issue like this before so it is unfamiliar terrirtory.

thx for the help.