Re: iPod help

[wallis parnelle]

I use to always put my cpu to sleep, but have learned that you give up  
some reliablity on the long tern with your systems health. You may have  
run your iPod  battery into the ground. I recharge mine all the time as  
keeping a consistant charge is good for the long term health of the  
battery. Try using the in wall connection to charge the battery, if it  
doesn't work, batteries gone.

On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 05:27  PM, Jim Pendarvis wrote:

I got a 20Gb iPod for my wife for Christamas. It has been working well
(8600, OS 9.2.2, iTunes 2.04, iPod 2.0.1).
She used it Thursday night and Friday morning and it suddenly stopped
playing. I'm sure that was the battery. She plugged it into the dock,  
which
is connected to my 8600, so it could recharge.

When I looked at it this morning, the iPod was off. I thought the  
computer
was off too, but it wasn't. It was just sleeping so I'm pretty sure the
iPod should not have been off.

It turned out the iPod was not fully seated in the dock. I pushed it  
in and
it came on and showed the "Do Not Disconnect" screen. I turned my  
attention
to the computer and when it woke up I realized the iPod had not  
mounted and
its display was again blank. I couldn't get it to come on.

I tried the reset procedure (several times) and all it does is display  
the
Apple logo which periodically flashes. It is almost completely
unresponsive. I can't even turn it off.

The only thing I can do is set it disk mode. When I do that the  
computer
asks if I want to initialize it which I'm thinking would be a very bad
thing to do.

Since I can't do anything with the 2.0.1 CD, I downloaded the 1.3  
installer
from Apple.  It tells me I need to connect an iPod to continue and the
upgrade and restore buttons are both greyed out.

This doesn't look good, but I'm hoping someone will have a suggestion.

thanks, jim



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