Zen Vision: M - Doesnt Fully Turn

So i was out and i unplugged my Zen from my car put it in the glove compartment woke up the next day went to turn it on and it started up like normal said "Creative" then "Zen" then it WOULDN'T goto the main menu the buttons start lit up and everything yet the screen is black. I then hit the reset button and it restarted but the same thing happen so I got home put it on the charger came back a few hours later reset it same problem, With this problem i cant turn it off either nor can i use it :-/. So if any can help me please do because at this point I'm frustrated. BTW the temp was about 20-30 degrees that night and it was in my car and thats what i think might have screwed it up

Ok so I went through recovery mode did a disk clean updated my firmware BUT in the process of updating it updated it and then said "Your Player is now rebooting, Please wait" so it rebooted then after the title screens it went black again so i booted up into recovery mode again and formatted the dri've and rebooted same thing happened so i reset the player and listened to it, so it starts up i hear the dri've start to spin or w/e it does after the ZEN screen i hear a click which is when it goes blank so again im stuck

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