Hello, I have a 2003 VW Passat B5.5 Variant with Monsoon stereo. I picked up a used PhatNoise kit a few months back, which was working fine. Over the weekend I tried to build a custom cable using a mini-D connector so that I could tuck the PhatNoise away and out of sight in the CD changer mount location in the hatch of my wagon. Unfortunately, the diagram I was using flipped the two rows of pins on the connector so I wired everything more or less backwards.
When I connected the unit with my "bad" cable, nothing happened - no power, drive did not spin up. When I figured out what I had done, I switched back to the stock cable and...now the headunit won't recognize the PhatBox. When the DMS is inserted, the red light comes on, followed a second or two later by the green light, which stays lit for about 5 seconds. I can hear the drive spin up..red light stays lit, but pressing CD on the headunit now just invokes a "NO CD" message.
Did I fry my PhatBox?
