Hello,

I'm the proud owner of a "original" Slimp3 (the 2nd version which came
with a case).

Since last week it started to behave strangely:
-while playing music, the display started to show erratic characters
-I had to power-cycle 3 times in a 2h music listening session
-I had to re-enter the parameters 3 times (the IPs where slightly
different: 192.068.040.254 instead of 192.168.10.40)

It is connected using a wireless bridge, I also tried different cables,
but the symptoms remains.

And last night, while playing music it stopped, and the display went
black.
I removed the plug, pluggged it back, nothing happened.
1 hour later, instead of the "Initializing..." - "free your music..."
message it displayed garbled characters. Power-cycled it, same strange
characters....

When I tried to enter the firmware upgrade mode it displayed "03x" and
nothing else...



I've read in the forum that It might need another microcontroller.
-Is it possible to order on from slimdevices (I know that the slimp3 is
quite old and might not be supported anymore)?
-If I have access to a PIC programer, where can I get the firmware ? (I
found this: http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/firmware/2.3/ but I
don't know if the bootloader is also present)
-Does any PIC16F877 fits the Slimp3?
-Is there a way to prevent this to happen again?

I know that a I should buy a SqueezeBox, but I do like the Slimp3 old
school look.

Regards,

Boris


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