It died..

[-IRC-MIKE]

Hard to say. If you have some compact flash lying around you could try to swap it and then try to reinitialize it just to see it it's the drive. Usually you still get the frowny iPod icon with a bad drive. To me it sounds like the battery is bad or other power probems. do you get the charging ICON on the LCD?

Nope. No charging icon, no nothing on the display, not even a backlight. When you press any of the buttons you hear a click or chirp sound and thats about all she'll do.

I've seen a bunch of Black Marketeers driving around in WHITE vans down in West Palm. They'd pull up and open the side door like a drive by shooting and say "Hey man c'mere, you wanna buy some speakers?" You'd say no thanks.. they'd drive away just as quickly.

[mapes]

Nope. No charging icon, no nothing on the display, not even a backlight. When you press any of the buttons you hear a click or chirp sound and thats about all she'll do.

I've seen a bunch of Black Marketeers driving around in WHITE vans down in West Palm. They'd pull up and open the side door like a drive by shooting and say "Hey man c'mere, you wanna buy some speakers?" You'd say no thanks.. they'd drive away just as quickly.

I think you won on both counts......Your drive is toast and the lcd is toast...or maybe the whole PCB is dead. If you want I have an Ipod mini LCD lying around you could have. I don't have a use for it and I don't know if it's the right sized LCD...but, your welcome to it.

[-IRC-MIKE]

Thanks mapes. Let me see if I can get this thing apart without destroying it first, and if I do, I might take you up on that. If I utterly destroy this ipod I'd save that thing if I were you. I have never taken an Ipod apart... on second thought, Idk if the ipod mini screen will fit in the regular ipod 60gb. I'll look and see if I can get the thing apart without breaking something first.

[GeneralSnake]

My headphone jack got borked on my ipod. Its like it was stretched or something so the connection wouldn't always be there. I would have to move the jack on my headphones for it to make some contact with something inside to enable me to hear some sound.

I should really look into fixing that...

Oh, and when I was a kid, I always though the black market was some dark van that drove around with stolen VCRs in it. So everytime I would see a dark van with tinted windows, I would think its the black market.

LOL!
You were a crazy little guy. Stolen VCRs. hahah!
Ok, so I have not done anything with it yet. But yesterday I decided to see what it would act like. so I turn it on and for a bit it is actually working again. It was making the clicking noise still, but it worked for about a minute. Then it froze again.