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Gigabeat blank screen, blank HD. Fixable?

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joblo:
I have a gigabeat F20 and I had the half boot problem where it would load 1/2 way and freeze like that. The computer would not recognize it so I did the "surgery" where I opened it up and then I finally got it so the computer would recognize it. I tried to do everything, even formatted it and all that but when I would try to start it up again, same thing happened. I formated it 20 times more and now it won't even show anything on the screen. I know it's turned ON because I can hear the harddrive spinning and making noise. Now the HD is 100% clean with nothing on it. Please tell me what I need to copy on it (firmware etc???) to make it turn on.

PS. I don't have the original CD, but I downloaded it, with gigabeat room 3 and it has a GBSYSTEM thing on there, and I tried to copy it 50 times but it still won't work. If someone would be so kind to copy all their startup files (with all the hidden files and all) and upload them to a filehosting site it would be great.

Any help would be very very much appreciated. I don't want to throw this thing in the trash.

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Phalangees:
The problem is that your hard drive has nothing on it. You need to get a copy of the firmware. It's the GBSYSTEM folder. If you have all the required files for it then you can boot into the original firmware. On one of the gigabeat wiki pages it will have a gbsystem.zip able for download at the bottom of the page. You need to get that on your gigabeat if you want rockbox. Then you need the bootloader and the .rockbox folder and you should be fine.

joblo:
I can't find the right one anywhere. There's one here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatFXPort
But that one is 1.6KB in size. If anyone can zip up all the necessary files and send them over so I can get this thing working, that would help.

Phalangees:
for rockbox, those are the necessary files. If you want to go back the original firmware then you need more but right now all you need are those files, the FWIMG01.DAT rockbox bootloader, and the .rockbox folder.

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