Peek a boo Oakley Thump mp3 player..

[bondiwaves]

Many greetings and thanks in advance for your attention..

I run a PowerBook G4
OS 10.4.9
1.67 GHz PowerPC G4
with 2 gb sdram.

and when I run the trail, I run with a stellar pair of Oakley thump 256 mp3 sunglasses.
Best ever.

What normally happens is that I plug them into the USB port on my laptop, and they show up as an external drive. I simply drag and drop the mp3 files on to them, and then eject, unplug, hit play and run for hours. Well, until today.

They plug in, show up in the system profiler as this:


THUMP256MB:

Version: 10.01
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Oakley
Product ID: 0x8294
Serial Number: 0002F5A906AD8713
Vendor ID: 0x158d


Yet do not mount in the finder.
Most annoying!

I tested them on another g4 laptop and they appear as they used to on mine.

After they've been plugged in to my machine for a few minutes though, the grey screen of restart death appears much to my dismay.
I've had this amazing Mac for two years now, and seen that screen five times only, yet three times today.

Please help. Not only do my favourite running partners no longer work, my machine seems to be becoming unstable.

Thanks in advance.

xx aa