I have read all the way up to page 16 on this thread. I knew there were problems out there, but, c'mon MS...
I bought my first Zune a few weeks ago. I bought my Old Lady the 2nd Gen 8 gig. The kid (no, not SALES man) standing behind the counter was adamant that they were not going to get any of the 2nd Gen 80's in. And, if there was the slight possibility of them getting any they would just get two-three and store employees would probably get those. Hey, BB, is that how you treat your customers?
But, anyway. I took the 30 and the 8 home with me. Right off, because the 30 had a CD, I ran that. Oops... wrong. This CD was not going to work with my OS (Vista, fully updated and ready to go.) So, off to Zune.net. Got the current software, and installed.
Know what?. Nothing wrong here. No problems. It worked as advertised. Everything worked with no problem(s.) So, with that out of the way, I did the Old Lady's 8 gig. Know what? Same thing. Why was I getting away with this and all these people out there in ZuneLand having all these problems?
Truthfully, I didn't care. Both of the models worked like a charm.
Then, last Saturday, November 8. 2007 I happened to be back in BestBuy. That same goofy kid saw me and told me, yeah, you guessed it. They had a sh*t load of the 80 gig models in. Only in black. But, I wanted black! Oh man, I was walking on air. I don't even remember why I went into BB, maybe the Old Lady wanted to... Whatever. I told him to get me one. He did. I paid him and walked out. oops, I gotta go back to BB and get the Old Lady. That's what she gets for wandering off on her own... hehehe
She didn't even realize I had left her. So I told her I'd be out in the truck.
Here she comes, about a half hour later pushing a cart. What the hell? Oh well, I had what I wanted. We loaded up and headed for the house, stopped to get some lunch and then really headed for the house.
She did what she needed to, I got into the 80 gig.
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What do you mean I got to plug it in? It is plugged in. Nothing, no reorganization of the 80 gig Zune.
OK, not a problem, just a bit of tweaking here and there. Mind you, I started on the new 80 right afternoon on Saturday.
I could not get it to work at all. So I surfed the Zune boards looking for some kind of solution. Nothing could be found. I did five searches with five different wording(s) and still nothing. Like some on this thread have said, I do not have a problem with getting in there and seeing what I could find.
First off, we'll just start easy. Uninstall and re-install. Re-boot and lets see. Nope, nothing. No the 30 and the 8 would not work. Uh oh...
OK, lets try some different ports on a fresh install. Nope. Lets try a "Safe Mode" install, all the different ports. Nope.
OK, Registry Edit. (and I did this several times. I hate editing the registry.) Nope, but I did find one or two odd things. Even after deleting anything "Zune" and I did a re-install, I found that some, not all, of my "Collections" were still in the software. How odd...
Because I had done so much with my computer, Zune(s) (even "Forget This Zune") I finally got it working one morning after I had gotten out of bed. That was Thursday morning. I'll do the counting for you. That was six days later.
What did I do? Did I sleepwalk to my computer and do something I don't remember? What?
damn if I know.
I do not know what I did. I cannot tell you what I did. I hope I never have to do that again.
But, it now works.
Hey, Microsoft! Why should we give you all of our hard-earned money to you when your stuff doesn't work right out of the box? You did send a couple of Tech's our way and they did their best to help, but it shouldn't have to be that way?
Why did you decide to open a forum and let us, who spent our money on your product(s), try and help each other out? It is your product, you should open up an "e-mail" tech support at the very least. You got all the money you have because of people like us. We buy your products. We pay for your salary. We make you rich.
Why do you ignore us?
C'mon MS, help us out.
Want to bet this post will be deleted?
Dale
I never said I was smart, just pretty to look at...