“… But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Just something to think about on this surprisingly warm Sunday in Mount Vernon.
My Zen MicroPhoto is officially dead to me. I have tried upgrading the firmware, doing a complete reformat/rescue using Creative’s software, to no avail.
The Zen was working fine until about two weeks ago. I pulled it out of my chest-pocket as usual, and the screen was dark. Assuming it wasn’t on, I pressed the power again. Then ever-so-faintly I noticed the “shutting down…” wording. Strange.
Up next, I charged it. I was nervous, but hoped a full charge would resuscitate my ailing player. The next day I checked, and it was still in the same position (dying).
I made my way through the menus squinting to check my settings and double-checking them. Everything was fine. I even tried changing themes just in case this was a horrible joke by the software. Nope.
As a last resort, I went to Creative and searched for any fixes or known bugs. There were none. Then, I used their recovery tool to reformat/reset my Zen. He came back up, but in just the same condition.
I wrote Creative’s customer care, but their response was to get an RMA and mail it in for repair with my dated receipt. Unfortunately, I am like most people and didn’t keep the receipt filed away in the cabinet just in case something happened to the player. Frankly, I expected it to last a year at least with the little and gentle use I gave it.
So, today I have begun accepting donations for the “Dan’s MP3 Player Fund”. Please won’t you help?
No, I don’t really expect anything, but an MP3 player is a luxury, and one that I won’t be blowing my money on any time soon. So I figure I’ll ask for donations and see if I can get enough to at least get a cheap player.
