Creative zen microphoto 4GB big prob

Since a week or so, when i open the player by moving and holding the power button to on position, the only thing appear is the splash screen of creative logo and copyright 2005 and it stays there until I remove the battery, cause when I tried to close the player by holding the power button to off position for more than 30sec. nothing happened.
Can some one had to deal with same situation ?
Can some one help me please ?
I forgot to mention that no computers can detect the player, even if I try with myComputer...
I just tried the recovery tool and neither detect the player ..
I have no clue what to do now
And also, I'm running win xp sp2 on a desktop, and i tried every USB port on the machine.
So lets go back in time :
1-When I opened my player, it went directly to the recovery mode(whiteout any valuable reason).
2-I downloaded the firmware update at that address.
3-I tried updating (at that point the player was still recognized by at least one of my computers).
4-The update wasn't successful (error message: the player's firmware has not been updated) in the application.
5-Then the player came on that start screen(Creative logo).
6-I cannot close it properly and I had to remove battery to do so.
7-It then never restarted again.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Sincerely !
JazzMessage Edited by jazz76 on 0-26-20070:00 PM

There was nothing else to do !
The player won't go on normally, it was always going to recovery mode .. That's why I did that !
And in theory, if there's a firmware update on the company's of any player shouldn't I be trusting it ?Message Edited by jazz76 on 0-27-20072:36 AM

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