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<blockquote data-quote="polygaryd" data-source="post: 4420372" data-attributes="member: 590977">SORRY FOR THE LONG POST IN ADVANCEhey guys i have one of these cd5444 hu&#039;s and heres the thing, i want to smash it into the ground and beat it repeatedly with a sledge hammer. the stupid hu doesnt have the security feature enabled. it scans for the best signal radio stations and programs them to the presets. it reads cd&#039;s everything is fine right. WRONG, the stupid deck worked fine in my black 1999 m3 bmw when it was hooked up through the rca outputs in that car. now i transfer it to my red 1999 m3 bmw and hook it up through the normal speaker outputs and i get no sound, just an initial pop out of one of the speakers and then nothing. i unhooked everything but the yellow(batt) red(acc) and black(ground) and hooked up a known good speaker to a set of output wires from the harness and no sound. so i eliminated the possiblity of the car harness adapter being bad, speaker wire being bad, speakers being bad or grounding out. all of which i know is fine anyway cuz i had a pioneer deck in the red bmw working 5 minutes before i transplanted this POS eclipse deck into it only to find out that it doesnt work through the normal wire harness only the rca&#039;s. any help would be appreciated before i smash this deck out of pure frustration. email me <a href="http://mailto:" target="_blank">polygaryd@yahoo.com</a> call me 508-523-1627 i dont care how you get ahold of me but please do with any good info you have about what might be wrong with this deck or any settings that allow you to turn off the wire harness speaker outputs and only use rca jacks which i have never heard of but could maybe be a possibilityNate</blockquote>

[QUOTE="polygaryd, post: 4420372, member: 590977"] SORRY FOR THE LONG POST IN ADVANCE hey guys i have one of these cd5444 hu's and heres the thing, i want to smash it into the ground and beat it repeatedly with a sledge hammer. the stupid hu doesnt have the security feature enabled. it scans for the best signal radio stations and programs them to the presets. it reads cd's everything is fine right. WRONG, the stupid deck worked fine in my black 1999 m3 bmw when it was hooked up through the rca outputs in that car. now i transfer it to my red 1999 m3 bmw and hook it up through the normal speaker outputs and i get no sound, just an initial pop out of one of the speakers and then nothing. i unhooked everything but the yellow(batt) red(acc) and black(ground) and hooked up a known good speaker to a set of output wires from the harness and no sound. so i eliminated the possiblity of the car harness adapter being bad, speaker wire being bad, speakers being bad or grounding out. all of which i know is fine anyway cuz i had a pioneer deck in the red bmw working 5 minutes before i transplanted this POS eclipse deck into it only to find out that it doesnt work through the normal wire harness only the rca's. any help would be appreciated before i smash this deck out of pure frustration. email me [URL="mailto:"]polygaryd@yahoo.com[/URL] call me 508-523-1627 i dont care how you get ahold of me but please do with any good info you have about what might be wrong with this deck or any settings that allow you to turn off the wire harness speaker outputs and only use rca jacks which i have never heard of but could maybe be a possibility Nate [/QUOTE]

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