It's called protection mode, and yes you fried your resistors. It can probably be fixed, and the best place for it is http://www.kbaudio.com Sergey is a nice guy, and their prices are reasonable. Plus they'll test it when they are done fixing it and send you a new birthsheet with it.

Regards,
Morgan


1998 Contour GL 2.0L Zetec Stock as hell for the moment....