RE: Failure to restore WinCE to iPAQ - machine is de ad

From: George France <france.a.t.crl.dec.com>
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 11:40:08 EDT

Hello Adrain;

Tell me more.

--George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Smith [mailto:asmith@commercehealth.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:56 PM
> To: handhelds@handhelds.org
> Subject: [Handhelds] Failure to restore WinCE to iPAQ -
> machine is dead
>
>
> OK, so I attempted a restore to WinCE tonight on my iPAQ. I
> had made the
> appropriate .bin files when I installed PocketLinux v0.16
> RedHat binaries
> and tried to restore them about two hours ago.
>
> The 00x0c00000 file didn't restore correctly no matter what I
> did, giving a
> flash write error at 00xFFFFC0. The other files restored
> correctly, however.
>
> My iPAQ is now completely useless - no way to get to it from
> a serial cable,
> no boot screen, nothing. I know not everyone has been
> successful with the
> restore. Does anyone have any idea what to do when this
> occurs? Is it time
> to send it back to Compaq as defective? Do I now have a lovely shiny
> paperweight for my desk?
>
> -Adrian
>
>
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Received on Tue Oct 10 08:35:14 2000

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