Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
02:06 - Y2K09
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Happy New Year, Zune owners!
Around midnight Pacific time last night, 30GB Zunes began restarting and locking up at their boot screens. Reports have swamped official forums and fan sites, and Microsoft has yet to officially comment on the reason for this pre-New-Year's Zune apocalypse.
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Microsoft has issued its official statement and an FAQ on the Zune.net forums. After "the technical team jumped on the problem immediately," there appears to be a bug in the 30GB Zune's internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. Microsoft recommends allowing affected Zunes to run down their batteries, and come noon, GMT on January 1, 2009, it will be safe to plug in, restart, and once again rock out with the Zune.
Because there's no hard power-off, you have to let the batteries die.
Via Lance, who says, "I'ma play Avenue Q "Schadenfreude" on my IPOD because it still WORKS!"
Meanwhile, here's where I was:
14 degrees and a zillion people all crowded together standing for six hours. This we call fun!
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