Re: [NTLK] Touch screen won't work on emate 300

Sounds like a display ribbon failure to me
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From: "Danny Newman" <loyxnn_at_gmail_com>
> Hey,
> I was using my emate 300 in school when all the sudden the touchscreen
> stopped working (i have no stylus atm and am very lightly using my
> fingernail). When I tried to touch the screen a clock would come up. I tried
> resetting it and when i got to the calibration menu I everytime i tried it
> it repeats the calibration process again. So I try closing the lid on the
> calibration screen and power it up and it produces an "error" and lets me
> use it again (sometimes the touchscreen works here) and the next time i
> power it off/close the lid and open it it goes to the calibration screen.
> SOMETIMES the calibration will work but usually it will not, and either way
> i have to reset it and make it produce the error to use it again.
>
> does anyone know what could be wrong with it?
>
>
>
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Received on Mon Oct 22 15:47:42 2007