One of the reasons I wanted a Zune, is that I wanted a portable Game Development environment. I want to be able to go on the road with a minimum of hardware for demos. The Zune is much easier to set up than the XBox. If I demo with an Xbox, I really need two projectors, Xbox, computer and all the cables. Oh, and I can already do portable phone development of course.
However, the Thinkpad didn’t recognize the Zune. I was getting a yellow box with exclaimation mark in the Device Manager and either a Code 18 or Code 1. I’ve spent hours on the phone — literally — to see if I could get a solution from Microsoft and didn’t.
I’ve asked several people on Twitter and finally got an answer from @
ZuneFAQAH
The answer that worked? Go to http://is.gd/me0Q install that program, and then install the Zune. Pretty scary because the ThinkPad Touchpad stopped working. I had to go to the Control Panel, uninstall the Touchpad and then reinstall it. Finding the driver was touchy, it was in c:\windows\system\drivers but now everything is working like a champ.
Man I love twitter.
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