Help with mp3 players

[Hikaru IchijoSL]

my grandfather got the new creative zen 2gb but it does not work with windows 2000(has xp in NY). any way to get the driver for it. I can use a different program to put on music in its place

Help

 

[milkweg]

I have the Creative Zen Stone and it doesn't require any drivers as it is treated just like a USB thumbdrive. You plug it into a USB port and open the device and drag and drop your mp3's to it. That's all that is required. If the PC has proper USB drivers then it should work.

 

[Hikaru IchijoSL]

That does not work anymore ideas

 

[SharpieFiend]

Make sure he has SP4 on Win2k, as that has the proper support.

 

[Hikaru IchijoSL]

that is strange tried 3 comps with sp4 and nothing

 

[SharpieFiend]

Are they all the same brand/type of computer? If they're running Win2k then they're probably fairly old, they may need a BIOS update to fix USB issues - I've had to do that in the past. The PCs may work fine with printers and such, but USB storage wasn't very common in the V1.1 days so there may be a bug or unimplemented feature in the BIOS. A good way to test for this is put in a USB flash drive and see if Windows works with it.

 

[milkweg]

I just tested my Creative Zen on a computer with WinME and it worked fine and could see all the files etc. If it works on WinME there is no reason it shouldn't work on Win2K.

 

[Hikaru IchijoSL]

I have a flash drive it works with the 3 comps. I will see my brother just got a new computer that run xp so once he assembles it I will test it on there maybe it is the mp3 itself.