Creative Zen Micro Firmware Prob

So I've got a Zen Micro bout a year or two back and it stopped working a whle back.
It turns on fine but used to make a buzzing sound and?freeze. It had a small box with?'Firmware Problem' written on the screen.
Lately, it still makes the?buzzing sound but freezes on the Creative Logo screen.
I've tried to renew the Firmware and I tried the recovery tool thing, but neither worked.
Is there any way to fix it's Or is it totaly gone?
Thanks in advance.

Did the firmware problem happen during a firmware update, or did it just happen all of a sudden, and if so how?
to re-load the firmware, download the latest firmware on a Windows XP machine, go to control panel, tne add/remove programs, look for windows media player and if its there click on remove, you should see a window saying something along the lines of windows media player rollback.
Next lok for something called ( or somethg like)windows media player runtime, and remove that ( it may show the roll back screen again, continue, and complete the process)
re-start windows
Plug in your Creative MP3 player via USB connect it to a chharger ( if it uses/can use an external charger) and let it go to 'rescue mode'
Click on the firmware update, and when it asks you what language, highlight re-load OS ( or firmware) in recovery mode on your player.
As soon as the screen on your player prompts you to re-load firmware, click on your language choice on the P.C upgrade window.
If there is no language option, then get ready to select re-load OS on your player when the update starts on your P.C.
This only works with XP
If the above doesnt work:
Did the firmware error occur as a result of an attemtp to upgrade the formware to a plays for sure version?
Is the player regognised by your P.C running windows XP? ( go to control panel then hardware, then device manager?
This is what happened when i tried to upgrade ther firmware on my Zen xtra, what i did to fix it was based on what other people had tried on various other creative playerws such as the touch/micro/vision etc
see hereMessage Edited by Rich_T on 06-2-20070:23 AM

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and it goes to the menu (think is called Recovery menu) and it shows:
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unfortunately I know hello not English, but my hope is that someone understands here German and I get assistance here. I bought a MP3 Player. A Creative Zen Xtra 30 GB. Since I thought that the Player with new firmware would work still better, had I tries the firmware 2.0.3.0 to install. But during installing there was a power failure and goes now nothing at all more. Now the Player always announces: Firmware problem. If I go on job, the Player is specified. But if I the new firmware to load wants, always appears: Player not attached. I tried it with Media Player 9 and 0 and , with the same result. On the job the Player appears as Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra. If I it then through doubleclick open, STORAGE appears Media and among them 20,0 MT stand freely from 20.0 MT. I am a housewife and have not particularly much notion of all these things. I would like only the fact that my Player again functioned and I mean music and again can hear my hearing books. Please, please, someone can help me For your assistance now already a large THANKS.
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align=left>You can upgrade from Creative Zen Micro firmware .02.05 or earlier, or Zen Micro
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