From: Woody Smith (woodysmith_at_comcast.net)
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 17:30:03 PST
My guess is that one of the backlight wires is broken. Happened to
my son's eMate. So when you re-grease the hinges you can check the
backlight wires.
A hard reset should remove the password. press reset and hold power
button until it asks if you want to erase all memory.
Woody
On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Dan K wrote:
> Just picked up a 'as-is--for-parts-only' eMate, in decent shape
> actually,
> but it has presented me with two problems.
>
> The backlight doesn't work. I can hear the inverter buzzing when I
> switch
> it 'on', but it doesn't actually light up. Torn cable? BL itself
> failed?
> Any way I can check without swapping parts out of my 'good' eMate?
>
> Secondly, it's got an Teacher setup password, any way to reset that?
>
> I hate to use this only as a parts machine, it's otherwise quite
> usable.
>
> TIA,
>
> dan k
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