iPod working again

(Sept. 15, 2007):

Thank God, my iPod is working again!

I thought I would open up the case, since I've got "nothing to lose" cuz it's been displaying the SAD iPOD icon for about 2 weeks already...

To my surprise, a piece of broken copper connector fell out as one side of the cover was lifted.


While I was at it, I also reseated the ribbon cables on the boards and hard drive.

After this, the iPod started working properly again! No problems whatsoever!

That piece of copper might have been shorting out some circuits inside the iPod that's why the hangs were intermittent!

Oh well, at least now it's working again...