hey, I have a c200 1gb sansa mp3 player, it has a bad i2c rom because it boots into manuf. mode on its own, blue ring of light, nothing else

. I downloaded the e200tool, I have opensuse 11.0 linux, i installed libusb.
taken from terminal:
Code:
(none):~/Desktop # sudo ./e200tool i2cprogram c240-i2c.bin
e200tool v0.2.3-alpha (c) by MrH 2006, 2007
Programming i2c rom (address=87) range 0x0000-0x2000 from 'c240-i2c.bin'
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... found!
Uploading at 0x2000
Uploading done!
Programming, please wait...
Programming failed (-32, Broken pipe)
*DANGER*, player might not be bootable now! Please retry!




how come it says broken pipe and how do i fix it so I cn fix my mp3 player? thx in advance