Zune Frozen: Reports Say Every Zune Crashed Wednesday Morning At 2 AM

Reports are trickling in around the web that, in a bizarre twist on the old fears of Y2K, every single first generation 30 GB Microsoft Zune froze last night at 2 a.m., seemingly without reason. The iPod competitor has often been derided online for trying to nab Apple's monster market share... now Mac fanboys may have more ammunition.

College OTR has a story on the "Zune frozen" phenomenon:

The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.

This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disasterous however, seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling Y2K9.

Guides on how to fix a Zune frozen by the problem have been popular on Google in the past few hours, but for now Microsoft has stayed silent on the matter. More on that as it becomes available

Comments

[HadronCollector]

05:42 PM on 12/31/2008

Absolutely true. I have a gen1 30G Zune I purchased (refurbished) 13 months ago. It's worked flawlessly - up to today. I found it frozen this morning, and have been poking at it all day long, trying every conceivable re-set combination, none of which have worked.

Alas...although nice to know I have lots of company...