RE: "Then a couple of flashes in the display, and the unit either
rebooted or went completely dead (requiring a power down). Once it
locked up into a scrolling flashing display and spewed nasty sounds to
my audio equipment - scary." -- RICK
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I have the same problems and have done the same things to correct it,
however my SB3 is still out of commission. The worst part is I did all
this voluntarily. It was working perfectly well and I thought I should
proactively upgrade the firmware. Bad move. All my attempts to go back
to the older versions failed to correct the problem, which makes me
think it is no longer a software issue but a hardware flaw. It may not
have started out this way but it's now acting like fried electronics.

Problem details:

- SB3 reboots with no consistent pattern. Sometimes it plays for a
couple of minutes then crashes, most times it plays for a couple of
seconds then crashes. Occaisionally it will play for 2 or 3 songs
before rebooting. It NEVER plays without crashing for more than 10
minutes.

- The crash behaviour is scary: there is crackling, hissing pops that
are transmitted through the audio as the screen shuts off then a pulse
of bright light wipes across the screen like the flatline on an
oscilliscope. Then it reboots, and repeats, and repeats ...

Of course all this happened the week my 1 year warranty expired.
Naturally I thought it might be my wireless network but I have ruled
this out after testing and repositioning it next to the wireless access
point. The signal is strong and all my other devices are functioning
well. I have not tried it wired yet. 

If anyone knows of a fix let me know. Otherwise, this looks like a dead
unit and I will have to search for a more reliable way to push my mp3
audio files to my amp.


-- 
juck
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