[NTLK] Oh dear?

[Joseph Reilly]

Could the contacts in the battery bay be dirty/not making good contact? My thinking being that when you try to put a card in, with it on battery power, it try's to draw more power but with the dirty contacts it can't and shuts down instead. Kinda like how you can run the radio in your auto when the battery terminals are super corroded but you can't actually start it (due to the dirty terminals). Just a thought since you said you have no problem when its plugged in, HTH.

Joe Reilly

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On Nov 4, 2011, at 17:19, "Tony Kan" <tony.kan at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> Hi Andy
> 
> Mine has started the same about 2-3 months ago and I thought it was just a
> software corruption somewhere.  I tried a backup and hard reset followed by
> a full restore but the problem remained.  I have promised myself to do a
> hard reset and then do a fresh load of all software before restoring my
> precious Names and Dates soups but haven't had the time yet.
> 
> It had better not be the beginning of the End.  Let's see if others report
> the problem because the fact that its happening to both of us around about
> at the same time might just be a coincidence.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tony Kan
> 
> Christchurch
> New Zealand
> 
> 
> [snip]
> Hi there
> 
> Could anyone advise me please. My trusty MP2000 is playing up big time -
> all of a sudden. I use it daily.
> 
> Using the battery tray it turns itself off straight after reboot unless
> I take out the FLASH Card. Then it seems to work ok.
> 
> This does not happen using the power adpater.
> 
> This has never happened  before (had this configuration for several
> years) but I can't get passed it. So it's basically not portable lots of
> important info is on the card.
> 
> Have tried leaving battery out for couple of days and soft resets.
> 
> Is this the beginning of the end or something fairly easy to resolve.
> [snip]
> 
> 
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