Mega Player 515 - LOCKED - HELP

Wow, back after 4+ years. Hilarious (and awesome) to see my solution is still sticky up there:P
Anyway...
A couple of weeks ago, my ancient (but beautiful) 515 started locking up whenever I turn it on.
Meaning, regardless of whether the actual LOCK is in place, regardless of number of songs, FAT/FAT32.
It locks up like 99/100 times and then it turns on like nothing happened. I can't isolate the reason... Any ideas?
It shouldn't be due to the LOCK key as it's not loose at all, and when the player is actually on it can stay on for hours/days with all the keys perfectly usable. It helped me a couple of times to do a full format, recopy all of my songs and disconnecting it first using the XP "removable hardware" interface and then unplugging it. Obviously I can't do a reformat and recopy every time I want to use it, and even that only helps about 1/10 times.
Also, I don't want to keep it on and plugged in the whole time so as not to wreck the battery/OLED, and even then we're ignoring the times when I have to actually copy new stuff to it (which turns it off upon unplugging).
Any ideas? Thanks a bunch.

OK, I just reverted back to 2.000.008 firmware and everything appears to be working as normal. I tried turning it off/on several times and no LOCKED message.
Maybe after all the shaking while running, the firmware gets shaken and stirred?
Later I'm gonna try getting the newest firmware back and see if the issue was with that, maybe the player can't handle the new firmware anymore due to its age:P
In any case, maybe this helps other people with the LOCKED issue.
I'll do an update when/if problems start occuring again.

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I have two solutions for your reference!!
1. Please pressing "FM / A->B key" + "REC key" meantime, and it will power off, open power and try again!!
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1.Pressing enter "FM / A->B key" + "REC key" will power off!! open power and try again...
2.Firmware update!!! please confirm your mega player is 515 or 515 Lite.
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(http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/ia/ia/pro_ia_detail.php?UID=564)
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(http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/ia/ia/pro_ia_detail.php?UID=613)
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Actually it is a long story including 2 other 533s which are fried (literally) during upgrade process.
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After completion of one of my upgrade attempts I inserted battery and get "usb power surge" message when plugged. That rendered the device inoperable with the battery. It was still recognizable by windows both as recovery and storage devices depending on pressing/not pressing start button before plugging.
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http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/video/codecs/MJPEG.html
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Motion_JPEG_Codec.htm
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