My zen won't charge!!

I've had a few problems with my 30gb zen since I bought it in that it freezes alot and it won't play movies. But the problem Im having now is that it won't charge! I reinstalled the software on my PC last night and had to reinstall the zen cd, but now it won't charge. It goes on but thats it. It doesn't even come up under 'my computer', so I can't get the files I eed from it, I've tried it on different PC's before and it would only work on my PC at home, and now I have no way of charging it! Can anyone help? I'd really appreciate it.

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Anonymous

Some USB ports are not powered. I've had problems on certain computers with it working/charging correctly. Laptops especially. Car charger works great everytime. Go figure. Some PC's may have an older version of WMP on it, which somehow gum's up the detection processes. Make sure the PC has WMP 11, and the drivers you need/Creative software on it.

Posted on Aug 09, 2007

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