Last christmas I recieved this wonderful little device, my 'rents paid 100 bucks for what I assumed would be my new best friend. It worked great except that my laptop (Windows Vista) did not actually want to acknowledge it's existance. I read a bunch of topics on that subject but I'll admit I'm not the most technologically proficient person in the world so I stayed away from most of them hoping to find a solution that I wasn't bound to completely mess up. Spoiler: I end up doing that anyway.

     I used my mother's netbook (Windows XP) put roms on the A320, only a few to start out with because I always feel uncomfortable using other people's computers. I already had them on a flash drive I just had to put them from one to the other. About an hour later her laptop completely freaked out on her and she had to take it to Best Buy's Geek Squad considering they never gave her a disc to reinstall Windows. It may or may not have been my fault, but that's neither here nor there.

     I was later feeling ambitious one night and decided to fix this problem once and for all. I plugged it in and somehow thought if I tried to run some kind of update I found here (I wish I could remember exactly what it was but it apparently didn't require me to actually OPEN it just plug it in) it would be considered good enough for my computer. The update ran about halfway and then froze, which was my worst nightmare. After about an hour of staring at a never-going-to-move bar on a non-responding window, I timidly closed the updater and unplugged my A320. It was then that it happened.

     Blue-ish horizontal lines. All across my screen. They almost look like they're moving. It wouldn't even turn off anymore, I just had to wait for it to die completely.

     I panicked, not only mourning the loss of the awesome power I had for such a small amount of time, but also afraid of what my parents would think of the fact that I had this hundred-dollar thing for less than a week and already messed it up. I put it in it's little case and shoved it in my drawer deciding that the best solution would be to forget it exists for a while.

     Now here we are 3/4ths of the year later and I am deeply missing it. I plug it in again (This time running Ubuntu) and get the same blue lines of despair, but this time hoping it would at least be recognised by a different operating system. Unfortunately not.

     So my question here is: Do I have any hope? I would REALLY like to get this thing going again, and I'm hoping someone else had a similar thing happen to them and they were smart enough to fix it.

     PS. If I need to open it I can probably borrow my girlfriend's laptop to do so, but I don't know if that will work either since it now feels like the entire universe is against me enjoying my SNES games during lunchtime.

     PPS. Sorry for the gigantic rant and wall of text but I figured as much detail as possible would help.