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01-16-2001, 07:29 PM
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Live and Kickin' 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Houston
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No boot
Time for a question from me now...
Today I got in my car, and my mp3box wouldn't boot. I brought it in the house and it worked fine, it just won't boot in the car. The lights come on, fans spin up, etc, but no post.
Inverter problem? Not enough power from the inverter?
Any other ideas?
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01-16-2001, 10:31 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Orlando FL (UCF!!)
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Your inverter needs some surgery, you might need a new one! Now you can get a more stylish one =O)
www.brandondere.com (digital_analog)
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01-17-2001, 04:15 PM
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Retired Admin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
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...or a DC-DC converter...
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London, Ontario, Canada
Player: Cyrix 200, 32MB RAM, 10.2Gig Quantum HD, Onboard EtherNet/Sound/Video, Custom Lexan Case, Arise DC-DC, Win95 Kernal w/Custom Player
Car: '86 Mazda RX-7 w/Basic Performance Upgrades
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"If one more body-kitted, cut-spring-lowered, farty-exhausted Civic revs on me at an intersection, I swear I'm going to get out of my car and cram their ridiculous double-decker aluminium wing firmly up their rump."
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01-18-2001, 09:36 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Smyrna, Ga, USA
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I have mentioned in the past- My inverter ate my PC. It destroyed my GPS antenna, and when running on the inverter I got GPF's ( AkA blue screne) and video drivers would not load correctly.
I brought it inside - everything worked fine. I put in a DC-DC PSU. Now my system runs great!
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01-18-2001, 09:43 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Posts: 1,311
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Good reasong we keep telling ppl to go to DC-DC but they don't believe us. Now for those that have inverters working fine...the possiblities of problem is still there.
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01-18-2001, 01:11 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Yorba Linda, CA
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Not to mention that inverters pull a lot more amperage than a DC-DC because they're less efficient... and then you're also introducing 60Hz hum into audio equipment not designed to deal with it (most home audio equipment has filters, etc. for cutting down 60Hz line noise, car audio stuff doesn't)
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01-18-2001, 02:12 PM
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Live and Kickin'
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Houston
Posts: 1,377
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It started working again... without me changing anything.
*shrug*
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01-18-2001, 06:40 PM
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Live and Kickin'
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Houston
Posts: 1,377
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I figured out what it was... Condensation!
Gotta watch out for that. It wouldn't come on again this morning, and when I was messing with it, I noticed condensation all over the box. If I wait until it and the car warms up, everything is fine.
I'm glad turning it on when it was wet didn't destroy anything. *phew*
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