Another bricked OS-43 !!

Nation.A.List · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:23 am

My OS-43 has just died on me! :cry:

The screen went dead when I disconnected it from my PC and will not turn on again. When I plugged the USB cable back in my PC (Vista 64) told me the drive needed formatting. What to do next? Is 'The Guide for Restore/Update RK27XX Players with RK27DM Tools' my only option? Are we Brits cursed? My first post was not supposed to go like this!

maderin1 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 20627

hi and welcome, vista is a pain to use with these player and with the tool

did you format the drive as you are going to have to im afraid

so you never used the charger that came with the player then

so apart from the drive that needs formatting what other drivers are seen, any??

for a strt format the drive then tell us what size (GB) it is

cheers
and sorry your first post is like this, i ma beginning to think these players are cursed

Nation.A.List · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:51 am

Have formatted the drive now you have confirmed my fears.

I never used the charger as it was a US version and I don't have an adapter.

When you say drivers... Vista recognises it as a Rockchip device and it shows in device manager as a USBDISK.

The drive has 15.3MB free with 8KB used.

maderin1 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 20627

right we ahve the main drive back and usually with these types of players it means that the player has lost its firmware partition

i have had this player for a month now (test version) with no probs and as this is so new we are just going to have to try a few recognised recovery methods

BTW did you safely disconnect or just pull out the cable???

oh, and i meant drives, my typo, sorry

anyway we need to establish if the partiton is actually dead, but i am afraid that if you need to use the recovery tools then i can not say if it will work in vista, many have reported not, vista in general with usb drives can be a massive pain, it does not handle them well

anyway see this that i mentioned in another post
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right step 1, lets see if the firmware is still in the player

download this file
http://www.mp4nation.net/downloads/sflo/rkusb.tag

copy it to the main memory of the player
disconnect the player
reset it by poking the hole
now reattatch the player

if all is well you will see a new drive letter, in there will be the firmware folders called APPDATA, SYSTEM, RESOURCES etc etc
can you confirm this

if not then we have lost the firmware,as you can see the main memory i want you to try this recovery technique outlined here

you will need a copy of the firmware update file from here
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=8978

and see the topic here, it mentions s:flo but just follow the first section about getting the player connected and in the second part run the recovery tool using the firmware located above link
viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8488

let us know how it goes

Nation.A.List · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:15 am

As I remember I safely disconnected.

Re the drives, previously I had an E: & F: drive, I have now lost my F: drive. (luckily not my sex drive..... he he)

Did the reset.... no new drive or folders.

So it's onto the recovery process, but not tonight Josephine, it will have to wait until Monday. (early start tomorrow)

Fahout · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:04 am

yes, brits are cursed.

jmreyesiii · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:31 am

Vista is cursed! I actually downgraded back to XP. Fortunately a lot of my personal information was on a separate hard drive since dowgrading from Vista basically means losing a lot of data on the drive with the operating system.

Sorry about your problems nation.a.list

jacku · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:50 pm

Sorry OT, but what abt the new Windows 7 (32bit) beta.

What the hell man, seriously I have never thought about these would actually happens.

Scary...

maderin1 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 20627

this dead player problem may have nothing to do with vista, we have another dead player on the baords also, not sure what they were using

jacku · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:52 pm

maderin1 wrote:

this dead player problem may have nothing to do with vista, we have another dead player on the baords also, not sure what they were using

Interesting and sad to hear ppl's OS 41 dying... I hope mine wont die. God help me. I just gotta remember to safe remove USBs.

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