Flashing when battery is drained

[shushu]

Hallo,
1. My lovely N800 stopped booting. From reading everything I could find I believe this is the drained battery problem.
2. I don't have an available Linux, so I rather use the Windows tools, and I rather install the new os2008 beta version Nokia provided.
3. Everywhere it is written to start flashing when I have a full battery. BUT - my main problem is a dead battery. How does it fit together ?

Please help, point me for my mistakes, etc.

Regards,
Shushu

[igor]

1) Start the flashing tool, so that it will flash the device whenever it is connected
2) connect the _powered_off_ device to the pc through the usb cable
3) plug in and don't remove the charger
4) when the flashing is complete unplug the usb cable

[shushu]

Thanks for the response, but...
1. I do get the USB icon on the n800, but the wizard does not acknowledge it...
2. Now I think my problem does not fit to the battery issue. It is more of a LD problem like this (http://www.expansys.nl/ft.aspx?k=95747). Does anybody encounter such a problem on n800 at all ?
3. Do you think this is something that can be solved by new OS ?
4. How do I proceed with warranty issues - a friend bought this n800 for me in the States few weeks ago...

Regards,
Shushu