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Old 07-07-2005, 02:22 PM
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Default phatbox cradle

ok... got my phatbox, installed the software, plugged in the cradle, inserted the disk (as instructions) but the only light that shows is the red one... any ideas? I have tried all the troubleshooting things... but no use...
Old 07-07-2005, 02:26 PM
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Default Perhaps you have power, but the pins for the other connections are not seated right.

I would recheck all of your pin wiring to make sure you didn't miss wire one, bend a pin, etc.
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miss a wire? where abouts? I didn't do any "wiring"... a bit lost there... lol
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Default i think if you have certain cradles, you need to install a specific driver..

check the phatnoise website for driver installs...?

the green light will only go on when your computer has actually recognized the cradle+disk as an external device. if you're running an older operating system like windows98 (or perhaps even 2000) you may not get the full "plug n play"
effect until you've installed an appropriate driver.
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Ah...you were talking about wiring to your computer...oops! Try the Phatnoise website.
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Default you probably need to pull the power to radio with the phatbox connected....

pull the bottom connector in the radio and put it back in. See if that works.
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Default what OS? plugged mine in (XP), ignored all the popups about new hardware, installed from CD

checked the list of drives under My Computer and saw 2 new drives, i a 200+mb and another about 18.2gb. all had phatnoise data on it.

as far as the green light, i dont think mine turned on until i was actually copying data onto the cartridge. in anycase, mine is working fine in my car.

just annoyed of the little chirp in the beginning when it finally plays the selection.
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oops, ya do what Chekm8 says....haha...I should learn to read posts all the way through.
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Default totally annoyed..

i wonder if it's possible to replace the soundbyte it uses with some kind of silence or something.. it's annoying when a song kicks in and it's got a rad intro that gets interrupted by the *blurp*...
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Default yup, that's the one. i think theres an option to disable the voice. i miss my pda :(

at least on my pda, i can see the titles/artists of what i'm playing


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