Raised from the Dead!

Woo-hoo! I thought my Creative Zen Vision M player was dead, but it's not! It's back to life!!

I let my wife borrow it during her gym workouts.

Well, I fished it out of her purse to listen to some of my favorite tunes one evening.

My heart sank as it struggled to boot up. The splash screen appeared, but then was replaced by snow!

I tried to hide my hurt, because I knew my wife was probably feeling really, really guilty when she saw that it wouldn't boot up.

My son immediately asked to have it. He loves to take things apart. He couldn't wait to take a hammer to it and have it strewn across the house in bits and pieces.

But, I couldn't let go. I just couldn't.

I morned for about a week.

But then, I became desperate. I started reading online about the symptoms my player was having. I started reading up on how to (properly) take one apart and where I can order replacement parts.

I made plans to order a new hard drive and perhaps a new battery if the pricing made sense.

But before ordering anything, I made one last ditch effort and decided to just let it charge. Maybe the battery was just so low that it was behaving in a bizarre fashion. I plugged in the charger, hit the reset button with a paper clip, and watched it boot to the recovery mode.

There, I just let it sit and soak in the power.

And Lo! After charging for several hours, my Creative Zen player was filled once again with the breath of life!

My wife promises to never touch my player again. I don't believe her, though. And I don't mind if she sees it again. I think her only crime was simply not charging it now and then. Yeah, she borrowed it for that long.

But my son is very disappointed. He though he had a new toy to break.

Boy, am I glad I didn't let him have his way with my MP3 player! I would have been sick if I had found out later that it still have a fighting chance! Just sick!