Problems with Zen Vision M: 30

I? am having a couple of problems with my player. I have hooked it up to every computer in my house and I get the same result from each one. When I hook the player up the blue light at the top will flash for a couple seconds then will stop. I have left it hooked up to the computer for a day and when I take it off it will not turn on. The player is unresponsi've and will not charge. Does anyone have any suggestions for my problem?

I have had this unit for over a year. The site does not seem to directly refer to it anymore but only mentions the 60 gig model until you find the right links in support. I saw your message while trying to bring mine back to life 9 months of non use. It is really to heavy for my jogs which is when I listen to music lately. Anyhow if you installed the device driver on the system it should recognise it. If you dont then windows is pretty dumb about it and a newer USB 2.0 system will shut off the current when it does not recognize it; .0 systems might charge it but 2.0 not likely. I have run into the same thing trying to get a quick charge on my motorola razer cell phone and I carry the driver on a flash dri've.
Once my zen M:30 did power up it appeared that the firmware had a problem. There is a recovery program which solved that and updated the firmware to the latest version. Since the unit worked until I turned it off I can only assume the error was caused by the deep discharge of the battery over 9 months. I did find it interesting that the 30 gig Microsoft zune crashed over leap year issues yesterday. I hope the older Zen firmware did not hav the same problem. :-)?
Anyhow the link to the recovery tool is here
http://www.creative.com/products/mp3...ol/welcome.asp
Good luck friend. Oh and the wallplug charger is a good investment. accessorygeeks on the web carries or did carry an assortment of things for the M series; cases screencovers garanteed third party chargers and usb cables

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