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It looks like the flash bios is similar to the rio car

It's not.


Well the upgrade message is certainly the same so this is not such a silly statement.

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I'm hoping someone can help me out with a copy of the boot kernel

I doubt it -- it wasn't meant to be upgraded.


Yeah, but from that message there is obviously a process.

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and the details I need to reflash it........


If you're lucky, you'll be able to use the empeg's upgrader program, but you'll need to:

a) get hold of a serial port converter.
b) get hold of the correct kernel.


Yes, I need the kernel and the start address to flash at. I've got a few other players so if I get desparate I'll desolder a flash chip from each and use a programmer to rewrite the bad one. (yes it is fine pitch smd but I could handle this if I really had to).

I'm actually hoping one of the guys who designed the little gems is still around and has kept the stuff "just in case".

I'm not stupid, I don't know how this happened, but I certainly wasn't doing anything especially dumb at the time.