MuVo N200 1GB - he

Hi?Before I send it back I just wanted to check if I've managed to break my MuVo! OK, I have only ever recorded tracks directly from my CDs to my MP3 using the line in. All's been fine until today when I've been listening to my MP3 pretty much constantly all day. Battery?got v.low and it started to whine and make 'tinking' noises in the background. Changed batteries and all seemed fine - but then it started again and won't stop! Display also keeps flicking from one time to another when playing a track and, when I switch it off the display fragments. However, radio is working fine except, again, when I switch it off the display fragments. Has some kind of unrepairable fault occured? Is it possible to 'overheat' these things and it just needs a bit of a rest... !

I'd like to do that, but the only thing I'm capable of finding is a download in .exe format, and that won't work with the OSX on my Mac.
Perhaps I should go bother a friend with a pc to get him to download the fw-update. It disappoints me, though, that the support for the Macintosh platform is so poor.
Anyone who knows if a player will work if formatted in, say, 'Mac OS Journaled'?
//Dan
Denmark

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