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When my toshiba gigabeat is turned on it tells me to connect it to a pc, when i do this it then says "update or restore portable media center using pc application" how do i do this?

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You use the software that came with it, the gigaroom. If you don't know how. go to this website http://www.giga-style.com/ its the website of the gigabeat. in the ssupport section you can download the manual.

Posted on Jul 19, 2007

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But what if ive already downloaded the manual?

Posted on Jun 03, 2008

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SOURCE: i am getting the message "Update or restore Portable Media Center using PC application.

http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/tacpassets-images/firmware/MESV12US.zip

download the file and install it . if ur player is not detected in windows then you need to install windows media player 10 and then attach it .

Posted on Dec 04, 2008

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