Eclipse CLD MP3 Player is not recognized. In Device Manager, I get the message that there is no driver installed.

Hi EDS Ellen,

One thing you could try (no guarantee it will work), assuming you have Windows 7: when it looks for a driver, instead of having Windows search for one online, have it look on your computer and direct it to the \Windows\System32\DriverStore folder.

After I had returned my Eclipse player I bought a Coby MP3 player and again ran into installation issues. After doing some searching online, I ran across the above solution and it worked (for the Coby). Don't know if it will work for the Eclipse but it may be worth trying!

I tried all of this and it didn't work... The manufacturer does not have the driver on its website, or I would think downloading it from there would fix the issue.

Hi GDGriffin,

I tried your suggestions but unfortunately they didn't work for me. I almost thought it was going to as it seemed to take longer in downloading and installing the driver, but in the end the installation failed, and the message I received then referred me to the manufacturer. Seeing I only paid $20 for it, I returned it to the store where I bought it, where the person who waited on me said that they had had some problems with others of the same model. So I'll do a little more research before buying another player. Thanks for your suggestion, though!

Dear CheechMonger...I had a similar problem earlier today when my new Eclipse CLD 4GB MP3 player stopped registering in Windows Explorer in the aftermath of a driver update (even though I could tell it was still registering somewhere on the machine, since I heard a noise whenever I disconnected or reconnected it from the USB cord).  When I ran the troubleshooter, I received a similar message about the DTMB BDA TV USB driver.  I cant say for certain whether this will work for you or not -- maybe you've already tried this -- but what finally worked for me was going to Device Manager and right-clicking the device which had a label in the shape of a yellow triangle with an exclamation point inside.  After disabling and re-enabling the device in the hope that this would fix the problem -- which it didn't -- I then tried to update the driver and that didn't work either.  Finally, since I couldn't figure out what else to do and didn't think I had anything to lose, I uninstalled the device as Umesh suggests and ticked the box telling the machine to uninstall the device driver as well.  Lo and behold, when I disconnected and then reconnected the player to the computer...voila!  It started registering correctly again.

That being said, I feel it's worth noting that my current Eclipse player is a replacement for one which I bought only last week -- the one which had a hiccup and stopped playing after only one day (a problem which I was fortunately able to fix) and then broke down completely after only five days.  Yes, I know we can't expect much from them given how comparatively inexpensive they are, but the possibility can't be ruled out that they are an example of caveat emptor.