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[SuperHero]

Yesterday I left my mp3 player resting on my running machine after finishing and today I go to do another run and now it's not working. I figured maybe I left it running and the battery ran dry so I hooked it up via USB for recharging and nothing happened. The computer doesn't even recognize that there is a usb device hooked up. The player doesn't light up indicating that it is charging or anything.

I'm not sure what happened as any time in the past that the batter has ran dry it automatically lights up when connected to the compute for charging.

Any ideas? is it toast? can the electronics under the dash of the running machine fry an mp3 player? don't really want to buy a new one.

[blackjack]

If you have a proper recharger (plugs in to the wall) try using that? if it is completely dead then it is possible that the computer just does not see it, it is like that for my old iriver H300.

Is it hard drive or flash drive based? because I am just guessing here, it takes more than USB power to activate the hard drive?

[SuperHero]

It's flash based and has no recharger that goes into the wall. It's only charged by usb.

[chevro1et]

Is there any way to hard-reset the player, even if it means clearing the flash-based memory?

[SuperHero]

[stealth_fighter]

Even if the battery is dead beyond repair, player should be mounted to the PC as a memory drive.
This symptom gives me a mild suspicion that the USB cable or connector has problem.

[bassexpander]

Sounds like how my I-pod died.

[SuperHero]

[Thunndarr]

IIRC, certain types of rechargeable batteries (Lithium Ion?) are useless if they somehow get to zero charge remaining. They are supposed to have circuitry built-in to prevent that from happening, but that's the only guess I have as to what happened.