Threat still alive? XP

Had mine last year and spoiled it after 9 months (or 1 year? I forgot already, got it march 2012). Unable to claim warranty cause I would need to ship all the way back to CHina and cause me rm40 lol.

BTW I tried to use the firmware updater to see what's wrong with my C30. It can detect the player, but showed this:"unable to write to device. Device Timeout"

Anyone facing same problem? any known solution??