From: Andreas Stemmer <groovingandi_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:41:48 +0200

Fred wrote:
> (...). I quickly came to
> the conclusion that my box is not able to charge, with your charger
> as well as with archos' one, but maybe too late : now my batteries
> ran out of power, and I cannot boot anymore, even with power cable
> plugged in. I did not figured out that charging is being done only
> via software and thought the rom was only there to monitor
> hardware-driven charging. I was so stupidly wrong ...
> (...)

AFAIK charging is done in hardware on the FM recorder because charging a
li-ion battery is much more critical than ni-mh batteries.
Have you tried the F1-boot option (hold F1 key during startup)?

Andreas Stemmer
Received on 2003-09-26