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Archos forum / Av500 Won't Start - Stalls On Boot Screen

« on: July 31, 2006, 05:47:03 pm »

Same problem for me ... bad HD, replaced now all's well.  Is HD failure a common failure mode on these devices?

I had the same problem with my unit.

Seems that the hard drive is bad.  I had to send it back to Archos for them to fix.
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Archos forum / Av500 Won't Start - Stalls On Boot Screen

« on: June 18, 2006, 05:06:46 pm »

bump

No one with any suggestions here?

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Archos forum / Unlimited Boot Screen! Yay , But Not. Help Please

« on: June 12, 2006, 03:01:29 pm »

Have you made any progress on this?  Sounds very similar to what I'm facing with my AV500?

Barry

Okay so my archos AV420 has been out for about 2 months because the charger melted, but I fiallygot a new charger, from www.newmp3technology.com and then I backed up all my songs. Called it a night, (with still more files on it), but then the next morning, it broke. nothing happened, I just turned it off the night before.

I have some very important things that I need off of there and the ARCHOS RMA says they will reformat first whoch I can't let happen

What is happeing is is the boot screen is just staying there as long as I hold the center button, once I let go, the screen fades and turns off. I can hold it on for 10 minutes and it will just hold the boot screen.

Could the hard drive not be connected? Because I don't hear any HDD noise.

My PC doesn't detect it, so I can't access it. PLEASE help it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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Archos forum / Av500 Won't Start - Stalls On Boot Screen

« on: June 12, 2006, 02:58:08 pm »

Been loving the AV500.  Have had no problems at all with the device (which was given to me by my company as a Christmas gift in 2005).

During MP3 playback through TV/stereo, I stopped playback and disconnected the device from the TV pod.  Plugged in USB to transfer files to device, powered on as normal.  Boot screen appears, flash of HDD activity, then powers down.  Since then, every power on is the same thing and results in power down about 7 seconds after boot screen appears.

Troubleshooting attempted:
- removed battery to ensure device is reset, no affect
- tried with DC power supply connected, same symptoms except the boot graphic stays on the screen forever (this also happens with power supply disconnected if I keep the start button depressed)

When connected to USB, XP never sees the device so I can't format or chkdsk, etc. using windows.

Any suggestions?  I'm dying without this thing!

Barry