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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Help please! My archos is dead!Re: Help please! My archos is dead!
From: ajf <ajf_at_midmaine.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:01:11 -0500 I had a different harware problem that was out of warranty (90 days -- Yikes!!) I called the Archo tech support, waited on hold for >30 minutes (long distance) and finally convinced a tech to give me an RMA to send the unit back. Yes, it is a toy. Rockbox makes it a useful toy. Yusef Napora writes: > Hi, > Sorry this isn't really about rockbox development, but I figured you guys > are my best hope. About a month ago, my power supply mysteriously stopped > working. My unit (Recorder 20) would still power on, play, record, etc. > using battery power, but there was no way to charge it. There was just no > power getting from the wall to the jukebox. Ok. So I went and bought a > radio shack universal adapter, 9 volts, 800 miliamps, plugged it in while > I was in the store, and it the unit powered on. So I figure, great, it > works. That was easy. Not so, sadly. When I got home and plugged it in > for more than five seconds, I find that, while there is enough of a > current getting to the machine to wake it up, it crashes after a few > seconds. Rockbox loads, but doesn't show the charging icon, and shows > that my battery is dead (which it was). I started it up a few more times, > just to see what would happen, and sometimes I got an ATA error (I don't > have the message written down anymore, sorry), but sometimes, there would > be no error, and rockbox would load as usual, only to crash again a few > seconds later. So, perhaps foolishly, I ordered a replacement power > supply from archos, which arrived the other day, and which does absolutely > nothing when I plug it into my Jukebox. > So, my question to all of you clever rockboxers is this: what's wrong > with my machine? Is it something that I, (or an electronically gifted > friend) could possibly fix? Archos' web site says they'll only accept > returns within 90 days of purchase, which have long since passed. So what > to do? Has anyone else had a similar problem? Is my $300 toy nothing more > than a paperweight with a hard drive? Any help or advice will be rewarded > with my eternal thanks, possibly a first born child (we'll negotiate > later... :-) > > Thanks, > Yusef Napora > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > Received on 2003-01-29 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |