Just an update on my washed Fuze…
I popped the cover, and everything looks clean and uncorroded inside. The display and the wheel lights are connected to the motherboard through different ribbons (as shown in nice pix on a link from a previous reply), so it seems unlikely that those out by a common root cause, if it’s a physical failure.
Since I can’t see the display, I tried the second method of updating the firmware. The instructions are a little fuzzy, but I interpreted them as extracting the files in the ZIP file from the Sandisk site and put them into the root directory of the player. I did that, but it didn’t seem to do anything, possibly because I was doing it wrong.
It still works, and I still use it more than my fully operational replacement. (How’s that for sentimentality?)
