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Dead iPod - uses?
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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My 2nd Gen 20G ipod simply up and died on me last month. Won't power up, reset - nothing. Anyone have suggestions as to what to do with it? I hate to simply toss it (the HD's prolly still good - how to test?) - there must be *something* one can do with it...
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
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What happens when you connect it up to your computer? If it's visible in disk utility, you could use that to format it..
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What happens? Nothin'. Like I said, it's entirely unresponsive 8-)
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Join Date: May 2004
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i would..
A) Bring it to a Genius Bar
B) Sell it on Ebay
C) Show it off .. you were an early adopter!
D) Keep it as a souvenir, or donate it to a museum (museum of modern art .. for one)
E) That's one cooooool paperweight
F) Smack me upside the head for posting such nonsense.
Condolences for your iPod .. hopefully the Genius Bar will be able to fix it. If not .. hey .. need a laptop? Cram and Jam Baby!
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston, TX
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I've been able to revive my 5 GB iPod by doing the following: remove the back cover, disconnect the battery cable from the main board for a few minutes, reconnect the battery cable, and plug it into the Mac.
This has brought it back when it was completely non-responsive. Good luck!
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Thanks. How'd you get the back off, does it just pry off?
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Sell it on ebay 
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If you go to one of the millions of ipod sights on the net like www.ipodlounge.com you should be able to find instructions on how to crack open your ipod.
Good luck!!
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Sell it on ebay
FS: iPod AS-IS
Blah blah blah iPod, sold AS-IS with no warranty. This iPod has not been tested and may not work.
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Originally posted by Sebastian:
Thanks. How'd you get the back off, does it just pry off?
i hear you pry it off at the seam. there are clips holding them in.
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Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:
FS: iPod AS-IS
Blah blah blah iPod, sold AS-IS with no warranty. This iPod has not been tested and may not work.
That just isn't right..the iPod has been tested, and is known not to work. It'd be scamming someone out of their hard earned money, and I know I'd be pretty pissed if i bought one like that.
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there are a few sites out there (that I cannot recall at the moment) that specialze in repairing iPods, if you think the HD is still good, send it to them, any 20giger is worth fixing
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Originally posted by Sebastian:
That just isn't right..the iPod has been tested, and is known not to work. It'd be scamming someone out of their hard earned money, and I know I'd be pretty pissed if i bought one like that.
Sell it as working, ship it with insurance and then say shipping damaged it. Ship it to your mom if you have to.
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Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Sell it as working, ship it with insurance and then say shipping damaged it. Ship it to your mom if you have to.
Yikes, I'd like to think we could find an answer that didn't involve mail fraud.
I'm gonna see if i can't pry the back off it this weekend, figgure out some way to test the HD once I'm in there to see if it's still good.
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Once the case is opened, directly below the firewire connector at the top of the ipod, there's a fairly large texas instruments imbedded chip. When the ipod is connected via firewire to the computer or charger, there's still no activity on the ipod (no display active, controls non functional, nothing mounts on the desktop), but this chip begins to heat up. My guess is that the chip simply blew, and that the HD is still good, but i've no way to test that.
Thanks for you input all, as always, if there's more to be had, i'm glad to listen.
Seb
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Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Sell it as working, ship it with insurance and then say shipping damaged it. Ship it to your mom if you have to.
So you are the reason I have to pay so damn much to ship stuff
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