Turning ipod shuffle on, it sounds three beeps and thats it.

Turning on ipod shuffle, 4 gen., it sounds three beeps, that's it. nothing else happens.

JDee -
It does seem I was prematurely expecting a logic board failure - guess it's the bad side of my 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' philosophy.
I followed the instructions you linked to and removed the RAM module (I only have a 1GB one) from the lower slot and placed it into the upper slot and booted up the PB. And voilá - I got the chime and it booted up just fine (actually, a bit quicker than it used to...). So i decided to back up all my data (as it was a month or so since the last one) before the next step - shutting down, opening the memory access panel, and shifted the module back to the lower slot, while making sure it was pressed in firmly. And it worked.
So it seems all that happened was that the RAM module got loose - which would make sense as the problem occurred shortly after i moved my laptop downstairs to write some emails while watching the telly (TV).
Now I'll wait for a few days to see if everything has sorted itself out (just to be on the safe side), and then think about adding that second 1GB memory module i've been thinking about for some time...
Thanks for the advise and the cool head!
Cheers,
Mika

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