Thanks for taking a look mlord!

Hey guys if one of my control lines is dead is my board basically dead in the water? This same empeg also had the 1 amp fuse blown that made for garbled display so I was able to solder in a new one so now that works.


I may have damaged a small fuse where the question mark is indicated. I might have to resolder it, is it related to the IDE chip?

I was also able to get it to pump the partition and load on alpha3 (and 2.01.hijack) by using the last (second hard drive) connector on the IDE cable! Hurray!

However but I couldn't connect to the device it would give me a

- from emplode under windows 7 via Ethernet for a while.

Now it's not reporting a hard drive at all and I am getting a Bad Pump at Stage 0x20 now. Quick understatement - think the IDE cable is wonky. I might be fighting with several things here. Any suggestions? I have 3 mark 2's and 1 mark 1 - 2 Of the mark 2's boot up but neither wants to recognize a hard drive.

JT!