From: SteamShip <steamship_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:59:03 -0500

I'm sincerely sorry to hear about this, since I know how I felt until I got
my Amazon replacement. If I were in your shoes and still wanted a MP3
player, I would try to grab one of the remaining Version 1 models (500277)
that are still showing on google, and mod the 60 gb drive into it.

You may not want to bother with the Uart mod, but I would be very upset in
your shoes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "TP Diffenbach" <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: RE: Good news and bad news


> I'm sure newmp3technology would be willing to do a re-fix, but how would
> they know if it was working without the firmware on the flash chip?
>
> Even if the firmware is replaced, how long will it last before it hardware
> faults again (without replacement of major components, like the pcb)?
>
> And if I were to get a new Archos, it wouldn't be 60gb (unless I paid
> somebody to mod it for me) and it might (here's my agenda again;) ) well
> suffer from the same (lack of) quality control for which Archos is
infamous.
>
> But I do love hacking on my mp3 player. Unfortunately, the Neos look like
> Fisher-Price toys.
>
> Crap. This has been a week from hell.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On
> Behalf Of scott
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:28 PM
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: Good news and bad news
>
>
> --- TP Diffenbach <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org> wrote:
> > Now for the bad news: about 7 and a half hours after I got the unit back
> > from newmp3technology, it again began to exhibit hardware problems:
> pressing
>
> can't you complain to them? they should "re"-fix it for free or at least
> refund your money.
> although you would have to do the uart boot mod for a fix to be useful.
>
> -scott
>
>
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Received on 2003-12-18