ok, went to the garage, got out the pick and magnifier and no loose pins on the cf socket. I am stumped. I am sure it's something simple that I am missing. this ed worked with old conductor firmware last year. pulled it out this year, flashed pic for ED and it worked the lights. reflashed for the conductor, formatted card a couple different times not connected. since my last post I have:
1 switched cat5 cables just in case, no go
2 turned off windows firewall just to makes sure it wasn't blocking anything
3 checked all pins on cf and everything was solid. took an ohm meter to the pad on the pcb and the pin itself as it 90's up away from pcb and all checked out.
4 reformatted cf card
5 converted mp3 again too ogg in audacity
6 loaded cf card with .ogg and .seq file
7 went to conductor chose Kingston created .sho .sch and password.dat which all created the playlist.dat
8. went to network sharing center and it shows connected to LAN but it is just identifying. should say aetheros something right?
still nothing. I closed ccp and upon opening i got a flash of it waiting for the next show but only for about 2 seconds and then it went to not connected. eject card and it says card error, reinsert the card and nothing changes, just says card error. if i reset the ccp, it comes back to not connected. I will go back in reading the forum and see what I can find about card error messages.