This is a true shame, as our lab was thinking about picking one up. Institutional purchases are nice until you realize that you have to jump through hoops and red tape rather than …

you need to download the ipod updater from apples site, you need obviously the windows version from here: http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/ This will re-format your ipod for wi…

Sweet! Thanks. Downloading now. Wow! 56MB!? I've only used this iPod with my Macs, but I don't have a Mac right now.

Hmm. Still does not see it. (I'm running the updater from C:/ProgramFiles after it installed it) My iPod battery is dead. Do I need to give it a little charge maybe? I was hoping…

Yeah, it needed a slight charge. Does not seem like the recharging feature works though. It's a small plug on the computer to a large plug on the iPod. Does the smaller plug not…

Dropped from full bars, to 2 bars to 1 bar... eek! Will it make it!>! Will it crap out before the restore!>!>! Stay tuned...

Damn. It just crapped out. I hope it's not fubared since it died in the middle of a restore. :rofl

Phew. Works. All is good. Gen I lives to see another day.

ive never seen someone have such an intense conversation... with themselves. bravo.

post hiking is not cool

Quote: Originally Posted by brassplayersrock post hiking is not cool That's funny. I've been here since 2002 and have less posts than you do. I don't exactly think I was…

What an interesting post.

Glad to hear and fun to watch the saga unfold. This thread was amazing good job I am also glad your ipod is working!

A 4-pin firewire port (which is what most windows computers seem to have) does not supply power, so the iPod can't charge from it.

It should last at least 16 hours.

16 hours is hard to achieve. You have to completely turn off the backlight and just let the music play. Any click wheel or backlight activity will drain the battery quicker. My …

This is from the apple site about batteries: Quote: Maximum Battery Life iPod can play up to 20 hours, iPod nano can play up to 14 hours and iPod shuffle can play up to 12 hou…

Yeah I only get maybe 4-5 hours max out of it. And that was using at a gym so no changing songs etc

4-5 hours is horrible. I never have my backlight on or Sound check.

yeah you should really be looking for about 8 hours

Does the serial on the case and system profiler match?

They might have just given you a new one, I sent my iPod in to have the clickwheel fixed ( it wasn't working after only 4 months of use) and two weeks later there was a brand new o…

They can and do use refurbished logic boards/parts for warranty repairs. My rev A 17" refurb had the PC Card and Airport controller go out. Replaced with an older board which had t…

I had a new logic board installed, and it doesn't have a serial number, System Profiler reports Serial Number: SystemSerialNumb which apple said is because they don't have any me…

I've checked the serial number on the sticker under the batter pack and it is my original serial number, while System Profiler shows the other (older) serial number. So I suspect t…