Sounds like the system crashed I got a rio as well there should be a pinhole on top of the mp3 player by the volume control stick a paperclip in it and it should reboot the Rio it's happened to me b4 in more than one occasion!
James
February 2006
I can answer this question...
my rio mp3 wont turn on when i press the turn on button why?
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