Re: [NTLK] MP2100 stopped working last night!

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 21:05:06 PST


on 26/03/04 19:00, Robert Serna at japecan_at_newted.dyndns.org wrote:

> Had a scare last night! I was deleting Bernies Bookreader last night then
> reset the Newton (MP2100) & got the -10065 error (I think message said that
> the Newton cannot use this card unless it is erased first) pulled the 32 Mb
> Pretec card out pushed the reset button & nothing happened? Took the battery
> out plugged in the charger & all the Newton was doing was flickering about
> every 5 minutes & not computat turning on! So I left it unplugged with cards
> (Farallon Blue arrow & pretec 32mb Blue) out & the battery pulled overnight!
> Being that this is my Newtontalk list Newton this morning I tried starting the
> Newton up but the same symptoms were occurring! So I did a hard reset!
> Everything came back! Then I put the 32 Mb Pretec card back in & restored
> everything on the card! No error messages then proceeded to download email
> using Mail V & the Newton started to download 1 of 2425? I let the Newton
> download & it stopped at 1240 of 2425 and disconnected (this process took 1
> hour 20 m
> in)! my questions now are 1) was there anything else I could of done? 2) why
> did it download 1240 emails & stop at March 11th ? 3) Is the Pretec card safe?
> Any suggestions would be appreciated! Now I'll start deleting the old emails
> to get to the current email date

It seems you did everything I would have done myself.

-Laurent.

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