Computer Sees Files, Insignia Doesn't

[Desdinova]

Got some weirdness going on here. I recently picked up a new 8 gig Pilot (still factory sealed) and it's performed like a champ for the past five months.

Just recently it began to misbehave in the same way that my previous Pilot did: would suddenly shut off while playing and when charging via the USB cable on the computer, the Pilot would occasionally shut down and wouldn't start up again when the USB cord was reinserted (I'd have to turn it on with the power switch, shut it off again and then plug in the USB cord).

Now all of a sudden the Isignia display insists there's no content on the player (including the normal install folders) but when I check the Pilot in Windows, everything's there and can be retrieved without issue.

Normally, I'd try re-flashing the firmware BUT...we all know that ain't happening any time soon.

I tried resetting everything, but that didn't make any difference. Any ideas?

*EDIT* Disregard. I re-formatted the Pilot and that cured the non-recognition issue and I turned off the Auto Shutdown function and that SEEMED to fix the random shut-offs. Ve shall see...

[Jax]

I hope that keeps all the problems away.

Reformatting seems to solve a lot of problems on the pilot... thankfully.
As for the random shutdowns... I suspect the problems may have been linked, but keeping the auto shutdown turned off should help if for some reason the code was calling that somewhere when it shouldn't have been.