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Offline mcphill

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VW Unit dies every couple days...
« on: June 14, 2006, 02:58:09 pm »
I have a PhatNoise in a 2001 Passat.  It has been working fine for about 8 months.  Recently, though, it dies every few days.  When it "dies", the head unit reports "NO CD", and both the red and green lights are illuminated on the PhatNoise unit (steady on, no flickering).  I have tried ejecting the cartridge, cycling head unit power, etc. to get it to reboot, but that does not work.  If I disconnect the cable where it attaches to the car wiring loom, though, it restarts 80% of the time.  It will work for a day or two again, before I need to repeat.

I just read a post about pins in the cables not being fully seated, so I will check that out when I get home this weekend.

Any other suggestions?
« Last Edit: June 14, 2006, 03:02:27 pm by mcphill »

Offline impossible

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Re: VW Unit dies every couple days...
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2006, 08:42:41 pm »
hows the health of the DMS?

Have you tried running some drive utilities on it to test that its not that?

Using something like check disk etc


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