Treserious;350372 Wrote: > I ended up with one of these myself. on craigslist, not ebay. > no I don't have the dude's email address, dealt with him over the > phone, and i didn't keep the number like an idiot. > > it is a brick, I can attest to that. > > opened it up to have a look inside to determine if there are any > differences, and the major difference i found was that instead of a > wireless mini pci card, there is a compact flash adapter with a 128 meg > CF card in it. > > removing that pci card made the -*"starting demo in..."*- message go > away, and made it look like it boots normally with the squeezebox > splash screen and all. > > I was able to set things up in regards to network settings and all that > using a Harmony remote, but as soon as it connects to the squeeze > center, and wants to update the firmware, it gacks. it stays stuck at > the -*"download complete. unplug ethernet to continue. this may take a > few minutes"*- > > it just stays there. > > I wonder if there is a way to get it up and going with some hardware > modification.
My understanding is that it is only good for a store demo. Other then that, as spare parts if you have an old SB3 with a bad display. IMHO it is not a good idea to throw more good money after bad attempting to make it operational because I believe Sean said they can't be converted to players. Either part it out to somebody that needs a display or mark it up as a Craig's List lesson learned. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50211 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
