I'm going to be upgrading my sound system in the near future. Not the traditional way either. I'm probably going to keep the stock speaker/amp/sub/head combo that's in my VRX (GTS for the USA), but augment that with an in-car PC. I'm going to be building a Mini-ITX PC with a 500Gb HDD (and yes, I have that many mp3's) and I'll be plugging the audio straight into the amp, splicing where the RCA's go in (I'll have to work out where that is on the amp, but that will come later) and the AV I/O will be via a 7" touchscreen mounted to the dash.

In the time being before I get all this set up, I'm using my laptop plugged into the RCA ports in the dash. My question is, every time I turn on the car when I've been playing CD's, it's automatically in CD mode. But If it was on AUX mode, it just reverts to the radio when turned back on. Is there any way I can set the head unit to retain the AUX mode when powered off/on again? When I eventually get this setup it will be a real pain in the ass if I have to hold down the CD button for 5 seconds every time I get in the car.

Nobody?

i added a push button after destorying an extra face plate i had i took out the circuit board and hardwired a push button to where you push and hold "CD"

http://forums.evolutionm.net/lancer-audio-...er-works-2.html

Not exactly what I want. I know with some cars there's a special combination of holding down buttons while turning the acc on to get default modes happening. I want to be able to select the CD player at will. But I just want whatever was selected last to be what is selected when I turn the car back on.

I'm gonna bring this post back form the dead...
Anyone figure this thing out?