Any clue? firmware upd

A couple of questions related to a problem that affects my zen...
-Does the firmware in my player affect the connectivity with my PC? i.e. my player has no firmware, and when recognized by the PC as an MTP device I can't transfer any files or anything to the player
-I can't update the firmware as I get the message 'player not connected'... is this related to not having any firmware?
Zen Xtra 30Gb
- Firmware version: erased, previously unknown (although it had to be the last one)
- Windows XP sp2, wmp0
- Player recognized randomly by windows as either a USB device (not being able to find the drivers) or MTP device
- Player recognized properly as an MTP device in a friend's computer, but not able to perform a firmware update
- Usb 2.0 Ali PCI card (not sure about my friend's, but it's a 2.0 for sure)
- Feeling like shooting myself
Any clue? thx

do you mean the normal recovery mode? the one you enter by holding tha play button while you reset the device with a pin? If so, I already tried that one. In fact, I get into the recovery mode menu every time I turn the player on, as it is not able to load the fmware. I can scandisk, format and everything, but when coming to the part of updating fmware... stuck as usual...

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Thanks for checking in, BDAQua.
Problem solved.
In the docs that came with my Powerlogix accelerator card, I found this sentence buried:
"If you reset the PRAM, the NVRAM code for OS9 compatibility is cleared, so you will have to boot from the Firmawre Update CD and perform this process again in order to boot in OS9."
The "process" it's referring to is the process of setting up the NVRAM for booting into OS9 from the CD.
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Conclusion: My (unadvised) attempt to load Leopard on this old machine apparently reset the PRAM on the accelerator card and cleared the NVRAM code for OS9 boot. Although I did attempt to reset the NVRAM via Open Firmware, it did not reset it on the accelerator card.
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