Help me Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!

[nofixio]

Hi, thanks for reading this.

Basically, I recently got an 8GB player off of eBay, properly formatted it to 2GB. Yesterday, was skimming through these boards and got the impression that it was wise to take a firmware back up of my player. I was interested in themes, etc, but thought 'what harm can backing up do?'

After using s1fwx, which seemed to run ok, I then clicked on the 'repair.bat'. Firmware dump not recognised. I disconnect my player and lo and behold, Hourglass of Death...

Have tried desperately to get this thing into 'ADFU Recovery mode', trying to short out the 8 pins on the both sides of the memory chip. So far, this has not worked (on this, or my mother's PC, battery in or out). Any tips for this? The chip no. is K9LAG08U0M PCB0. The only response I get when doing this is when I short the voltage pins, in which case the player merely dies and powers up again. Please help me with this, I'm severly pissed off that a 'backup' tool has managed to break my player so badly.