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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Help please! My archos is dead!Re: Help please! My archos is dead!
From: Gary Richardi <gary_pr_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:04:06 -0800 (PST) Possibly, one or more of your batteries can no longer hold a charge. I believe the AJB runs only on battery power and the adapter can only charge the batteries and cannot power the unit if the batteries are bad. --- Yusef Napora <ynapora_at_hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 > ===== --- Gary --- 4 Way Street (West) - CSN&Y Tribute band ---> http://4waystreet.net My original music ---> http://www.mp3.com/gpr __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Received on 2003-01-29 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |