Time to return IPOD Shuffle to Sams Club

I've spent a couple of hours trying to resolve the blinking orange light from the ipod shuffle without success. Moreover, the ipod shuffle isn't recognized by windows XP. See my last post as to what I did to try and troubleshoot problem. Hopefully, Sams Club will take back the defective product. Don't have time to spend troubleshooting ipod shuffle.

Can't say why XP doesn't recognize your Shuffle, but have had experience with the flashing amber light. I purchased the wall charger and the flashing stopped and the Shuffle received a full charge.
Come to think of it I had trouble getting my Win2K machine to recognize the Shuffle. After purchasing the charger there has been no problem having the Shuffle recognized by the computer. This makes me suspect that the problem you're having isn't because of XP, rather it is because your Shuffle isn't sufficiently charged.
  Windows 2000  

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