That is a good sign, the flash memory was erased, unsucessfully programed, so there's nothing there now. You need to sucessfully complete the hijack install before anything will work.

The other thread mentioned "Well anywayz, to make a long story short, after much messing around, and numerous "Error status in readbyte 16" messages, Tony's logo editor decided to work it's magic, and Hijack suddenly installed successfully. And since then, the player has been fine."

So there I'd patiently try to install hijack multiple times. There probably is a real problem somewhere, that you can temporarily work around, like maybe a failed solder joint somewhere.

--Nathan