Zen Micro with booting proble

Hey i had this zen for 2 weeks so far and I've read the faqs and tried what it had to say.
My problem is that my zen micro freezes on the Creative logo. Now it worked before but in the past few days its been like this. I've did clean up reformated it and reloaded the OS/firmware. The only thing about the firmware is that it needed to boot up but like i said it freezes. It when i tried it a second time it said that the firmware is the same as the update so does anyone think i did it right? Suggestions in fixing my Zen micro is greatly appcreiated.

If you updated the firmware and then tried the same update again you will of course be told you have the same firmware. The only way to reload it is from rescue mode (using the reload firmware command).
Realistically though if you've updated the firmware and the player is freezing once or twice a day it sounds faulty. I would contact support.

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