ZEN MICROPHOTO connection problem, he

Hey guys, well my battery died so i recharge it. The computer did nothing for its charge. Anyways, i went to update the firmware that didn't work, now its stuck with nothing...
The computer recognizes the player when its plugged in only by the windows thing that pops up.
The creative software says the player is not connected.
Firmware update claims its not connected
The player is stuck in recovery mode, all options work but they do me no good.
When turned on it goes to the creative screen then normally it'll go to a MicroPhoto logo thing, now it just all scrambled pixels! I've had nothing but trouble with this thing and i have done nothing to it but plug it in the computer to charge and put new music on, seems like everytime the battery dies I fear the player will screw up. Anyone help me out, i use this all day at work and now i cant!

Mintsick wrote:
yeah beta is installed, what do you suggest doing?
Uninstall it. It will roll back to WMP 0. has a problem when it comes to updating firmware. Make sure you uninstall WMP and the WMP Runtime Format. It might be necessary to re install WMP 0 afterwards. If all fails do a System Restore to before WMP was installed.

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