Does anyone have any idea why my Ipod shuffle is not being detected by one of my Windows XP's PC's?
It's a freebie 512MB one I got last summer and which hasn't been used for a few months, so when I plugged it in my USB port and Windows didn't detect it I assumed the battery was flat, so left it in to charge.
Removing it an hitting play (with headphones in) shows the battery is charged - the rear light comes on in green when pressed (I assume that means it's fully charged, the instructions I got were in French and Dutch), but it doesn't appear in Winamp (where it used to) or as a USB Mass Storage device.
In my Laptop it appears as a USB mass storage device and the dopisp plugin shows it in Windows Media Player, and allows me to sync to it just fine, ditto in Winamp. When in my laptop the light is solid Orange, but in my PC it flashes green constantly. Is it time to replace it with a Zen Nano or can it be fixed? In the same socket on my PC (i've also tried a rear port and one on the USB-PCI card) my Zen Vision:M and Sony Ericsson K800i both are detected by Windows and Windows Media Player.
Itunes has not been installed on either machine, and it isn't going to be either.
It's a freebie 512MB one I got last summer and which hasn't been used for a few months, so when I plugged it in my USB port and Windows didn't detect it I assumed the battery was flat, so left it in to charge.
Removing it an hitting play (with headphones in) shows the battery is charged - the rear light comes on in green when pressed (I assume that means it's fully charged, the instructions I got were in French and Dutch), but it doesn't appear in Winamp (where it used to) or as a USB Mass Storage device.
In my Laptop it appears as a USB mass storage device and the dopisp plugin shows it in Windows Media Player, and allows me to sync to it just fine, ditto in Winamp. When in my laptop the light is solid Orange, but in my PC it flashes green constantly. Is it time to replace it with a Zen Nano or can it be fixed? In the same socket on my PC (i've also tried a rear port and one on the USB-PCI card) my Zen Vision:M and Sony Ericsson K800i both are detected by Windows and Windows Media Player.
Itunes has not been installed on either machine, and it isn't going to be either.