Hi Stewart,
It may be time for a call to Frank for your 130.
see <http://www.pda-soft.de/mp130fixes.html>
Regarding your battery pack
clean all contacts on the battery and in the battery silo, I use a
pencil eraser.
If the battery doesn't display a bit of springiness as it is almost
fully inserted you may not be getting full contact with the neg.
terminal. fashion a hook and gently bend it.
If the battery was fully discharged it may take several attempts at
charging to get it started.
The pen alignment issue may be related to jaggies. Try using a thin
plastic card to remove any material that may be lodged between the
display and the case.
Good luck
Woody
On Feb 6, 2008, at 5:13 AM, Stuart Mingay wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I installed new batteries, but not a new backup battery, and
> switched it on. Everything was working fine, even though it was
> complaining about the backup battery. I held the power switch down
> and the backlight came on. Excellent, I thought. However, after
> using the backlight a few times, swicthing it on and off with the
> power switch, it now refuses to come on. The batteries are basically
> at full charge, the light just won't come on now. Any ideas what has
> caused this, and how I can fix it?
>
> With the 2100, things are a bit more complicated. The machine has
> always worked when plugged into a power supply (not the original as
> I can't get a US to UK adapter, but one that outputs similar,
> slightly lower figures). The original battery pack was dead and I
> had it refurbished by Frank (is that right?) at PDA-soft.de.
> However, although the pack passed the PDA-soft testing, when I put
> it into the 2100 and plug in the power, the newton says that the
> pack cannot take a charge and should be replaced. How can I check if
> (a) the pack's OK, and (b) the Newton is sending charge into the
> pack correctly?
>
> Finally, I've noticed that the 2100's digitizer is never aligned
> correctly. After running the Align Pen utility, writing appears
> 2-3mm below where the pen is. Any way to correct this?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Stuart
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