Well I bought a new DAC from that seller. Fortunately got it from him for $20 shipped. Unfortunately it didn't change anything. *cries* stupid cd player! I did try the digital output awhile back, and that works perfectly, so that would lead me to think the problem had to be at the analog portion. And since I saw the ringing on the analog out pins

Isn't there an old thread about this somewhere else in the forum? Anyway, off the top of my head: Celebrity Apprentice: Trump's secretary has a beocom phone Deal or No Deal: the beocom, although I assume this one was already obvious to everyone I remember on the old forum someone actually mentioned a Mel Gibson movie where there were some Pentas

There are some surface mount capacitors inside that often go bad and stop the 2-way communication. I don't have time right now, but when I get a chance I'll look for the thread which mentions which caps inside are responsible if you want to try that. Austin

Thanks guys. I knew that the MCP doesn't have its own clock, and just receives the time from the beomaster. I was thinking though that as long as I kept the MCP in contact with the beomaster there might be a way. I know battery draw would be greater, but I've seen LED table clocks that run on batteries so I didn't think it'd be a deal

Hey Graeme, They've been giving the F status back to people who forgot to renew. I wouldn't worry about it. They haven't been holding to the "once someone loses the F status they won't get it back" rule. Austin

Hey guys, Simple question. Once I set the clock on my 6500 with the MCP, is there anyway to leave the time constantly displayed on the MCP? If I press clock it shows the time, but then disappears after about 5 seconds. Thanks as always, Austin

Steve I actually think they may be one of the most common beocords. Just keep an eye on ebay and be patient. More often though you see them being sold as part of the whole system. Austin

Yes I'm thinking of trying that Peter, but I still wanted to try to rule out other possibilities before just buying a new chip. Austin

But Martin, how could the caps help if I can already see on the scope that the supplies to the DAC look clean?

Well the last several posts got deleted during the forum crash, but anyway, I used the scope to look at the 3 power pins on the DAC, and all 3 lines are nice and flat, although one of the voltages 1V high. But I've never seen something like a 1V difference actually cause a problem, so I don't think that's it. So that's where I stand