NW-A3000 has died! Can it be repaired.

[Andrew W]

Hi everyone,

I have a SONY NW a300 20gb walkman and I love it! I hate the software (who doesn't) but love the capacity of the player.

I re-built my pc recently and installed a new PSU. The PSU failed whilst the walkman was plugged in, since then the walkman is useless. It won't power up, won't charge, isn't reconised by the pc. SONY want £75 to repair it which is a crazy amount of money, ebay lists cheaper ones! BUT I don't really want a new one, I want dabs.com to recognise that thier PSU casued the failure. They want an engineers report proving that!

So my issues are twofold:

1) does anyone have any hints or tips on what could be wrong with the walkman and how I could repair it?

2) does anyone know of an "engineer" that would be prepared to take a look at the walkman and provide a report to dabs.com stating that the PSU failure caused the walkman failure?

Other hints and advice would clearly be welcome!

Many thanks

Andrew

[Guest Stuge]

Weclome to Atraclife !

Sorry for our Walkman ..

PSU has nothing to do with it ,but sudden shut down of computer can damage the walkman .

Have you tried to reset the walkman again using the reset button?though I know chances are very slim .

or you can use the service manual to open it yourself ,but I don;t think you will be able t figure what is the cause of this problem by yourself .

Unfortunately if nothing works up ,I have a feeling that only Sony can repair it now .