Tom,

I have read through most of the posts on X5world as well as e46fanatics and have seen similar issues on some of the older BMW's and Dice units. To help troubleshoot the problem I have summarized the following:

Vehicle: 2001 X5 with a production date of 10/2000 without Nav or DSP
Ipod: Third Generation Nano (4 Gig) with firmware 1.1.3
Ipod: First Generation Nano (1 Gig) with firmware 1.3.1 (tested the wifes)
Dice: Dice Silverline that was purchased from EAS last week (all switches up)

Installation:
1. Uplug battery
2. Routed cables
3. Connected dice
4. Connected battery

Everything worked great until I shut the car off and removed the key. After that the display wouldn't work any more until I reset the battery reset as inidicated in some of your other posts.

I have noticed that everytime I shut the car off without switching to FM and shutting the radio off that I display will go out, and I will need to reset from the battery. Is this normal behavior? is there anyway to control this from happening by setting the dip switches in a different position? The wife drives my x5 on a regular basis, and she is horrible about turning things off.

Thanks
JD