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yennix
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 Posted - 12/05/2005 : 5:34:56 PM
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I have an N2, 64 meg 60 GB HD unit that has recently failed on me.
I was using NCast to transmit to my car's stereo this past Sunday. I stopped playback, and held down play to turn it off. It must have had a kink in the database because I left it there shutting down and it never actually powered off. It was several hours when I got back to it, and the battery had collapsed and the player had gone dead. When I tried to plug it into the car charger to recharge it, i only got a faint glow from the LCD as it struggled to wake up. Eventually, it threw a hex code error at me and never reactivated.
I took it home, plugged it into a wall unit and tried to turn it on again. This time I got no reaction out of it. No glow, no hard disk spinning. I left it to charge over night, but there was no change the next morning.
After a nights charge, I unseated the brain, pressed and held play while it was disconnected from the backpack in an attempt to clear out any residual charge or memory. To reset it to a default state. I've done this in the past to resurrect my N2 when it's acting up. After reinserting the brain and pressing play again, it still fails to respond.
USB connections are met with similar results. The neuros is unresponsive to USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 connections. When I remove the brain and try to plug just the backpack into USB 2.0 (while it's plugged into power and while it is not) I get no activity. The hard disk doesn't spin and my computer does not recognize any thing trying to connect to it.
So it seems that my poor N2 is as solid a brick as they come. Is there any thing that I haven't tried here that might resurrect it? Is service still available for the N2? I'd be gratefully for any assistance that can be provided. Thank you in advance.
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guttrhead(at)gmail.com
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Posted - 12/05/2005 : 8:17:17 PM
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yennix
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Posted - 12/06/2005 : 8:03:37 PM
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Originally posted by guttrhead(at)gmail.com
Have you tried charging without the brain attached?
I thought that I had the first night it crashed, but now I'm not sure. We'll see how it acts tomorrow after doing so.
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yennix
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Posted - 12/07/2005 : 5:50:32 PM
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Well, my little baby's been charging with out it's brain for 24 hours now and still no love from it. I'm at a loss. Short of cracking the cases on the HD unit and the CPU what else might I try?
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cardinalflyer
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Posted - 12/09/2005 : 11:45:14 PM
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| I did the same with mine (let the battery go totally dead). Need to open your backpack and repalce the battery. Mine was still under warranty, so Neuros did it for me. |
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yennix
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Posted - 12/12/2005 : 06:25:24 AM
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Well, I would have thought that the battery was dead, but when I pulled it out and put it under a voltmeter, it gave me a perfect 3.7 volts. I even swapped the hard drive for another one that I had, just thinking that it had crashed and was screwing every thing up. Nope, that wasn't it either.
The cold must really have done a number on it. Either that or powering it up when it had such a weak charge did it in. I'm shipping it back to the Orbital Neuros Repair Facility today to get it serviced. Gonna cost me money because I'm obviously out of warrantee now, but with the N3 off somewhere into Q2 (I'm guessing) of next year, I can’t do with out mine right now.
Maybe they'll tell me what went wrong with it...
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Another small death in the Neuros Family
