Canon mv800 will not start up

With Canon, you can’t… well, I can’t anyway. My 20-month-old mv800 has already suffered the dreaded ‘remove the cassette’ disease, and following a six week wait for Canon to repair and return my camcorder, the thing seems to have died of shock shortly after arriving home. I tried the camcorder out when I got it back, and there seemed to be no problem with it, and when I got it out a few weeks later to film my daughter at play, I was greeted with a white-ish display screen.

Following a few expletives, I turned the machine off, and when I turned it back on, I was presented the same thing. I turned it off again, took the battery out, put it back in, and… nothing happened. The thing just stopped responding. There were no beeps, no welcome screen, no power, no nothing. The thing just will not start, even when I attach the external power cord. I’ve had a bit of a look around, and I can’t really seem to find a solution. Does anybody have a suggestion on how to get the thing working again?