Re: [iPAQ] help ! is it a brick now?

Unfortunately that doesn't work. Still no response.

Marcus

Richard Cohen writes:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Marcus O.C. Metzler wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I just had a very strange experience. I was using my iPaq with a IBM
> > Microdrive in the CF jacket. I tried to mount the Microdrive, but the
> > cardmanager said there wre no cards installed. Then all of a sudden
> > the lcd went black. I thought, maybe the battery was low, so I took of
> > the CF jacket and put it into the cradle. But the the lights didn't
> > start blinking as usual. So I tried turning it off and on again, but
> > there was no response. No LCD and nothing via serial connection.
> >
> > Does anybody know what could have happened? What should I do?
> >
> > Marcus
>
> I've had a similar thing happen a few times. The solution is to leave it a
> few minutes and *then* plug it in. I would guess the problem is that you
> ran the battery down to *absolutely empty*, and the charging circuitry needs
> a small charge to be present in order to turn the LED on - I don't know
> whether it's charging or not. You know that if you run a battery down, then
> leave it and come back to it, the charge has recovered a bit? When you
> leave the iPaq alone for a few minutes, the battery seems to recover enough
> to bootstrap the rest of the charging. Remember, plugging in a Microdrive
> is one of the most stressful things you can do to the battery.
>
> Of course, all of the reasoning above could be nonsense, except for the fact
> that I have seen this and leaving it unplugged for a few minutes seems to
> have solved it for me.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
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Received on Sat Nov 25 08:03:10 2000