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Posted by anton on 01-14-2002 09:34 PM:

Screen stays blank! What can I do more?

My Visor seems to send me messages that it is time to buy another one. This time after a hot sync the screen went blank and I can't get it to reappear. As far as I can tell the buttons do turn the Visor on or off. When I tap on the screen I hear the usual click sound or beep, but I can't see anything. I tried the following in this order:
1. Adjusting the contrast, but I can't see the slider when I try this, so no go.
2. Fresh batteries. even tested the old ones, which were still pretty good (1.4V each)
3. Soft reset
4. Warm reset
5. Hard reset
No success and I am getting to the point I no longer know what to try. I thought that maybe the ribbon is not connected to the screen, but then it should not react to taps by the stylus isn't?
Any help would be appreciated.

Posted by PDAENVY on 01-14-2002 09:36 PM:

Re: Screen stays blank! What can I do more?

quote:
Originally posted by anton
I thought that maybe the ribbon is not connected to the screen, but then it should not react to taps by the stylus isn't?
Any help would be appreciated.

Your ribbon cable could be partly unseated. Open your visor and re-attach the ribbon cable. Maybe that'll help.

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Posted by anton on 01-15-2002 05:49 PM:

Question about ribbon cable

quote:
Originally posted by PDAENVY
Your ribbon cable could be partly unseated. Open your visor and re-attach the ribbon cable. Maybe that'll help.

I opened it up and visually inspected the ribbon connection. It seemed firmly attached on both sides and I did not want to pull them loose, as I was not sure whether you can disconnect both sides or only the cpu side, which seemd to have some kind of connector. Could be possible that the cable is badly connected, even if it appears well connected?

Posted by mdatl on 01-15-2002 07:00 PM:

How much will you take for it?

Posted by PDAENVY on 01-15-2002 07:16 PM:

Re: Question about ribbon cable

quote:
Originally posted by anton
Could be possible that the cable is badly connected, even if it appears well connected?

Not likely. It's starting to sound like you need a repair.

Or look here.

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Posted by anton on 01-16-2002 02:03 AM:

now completely dead

quote:
Originally posted by PDAENVY
Not likely. It's starting to sound like you need a repair.

Or look here.

I looked at http://www.gethightech.com/ to see how to take my Visor apart. I tried a few more hard resets , once with batteries removed, which resulted in getting some lines drawn on the screen. Alas after that my Visor seems completely dead. I see no point in trying to repair it as some Walmart stores were selling the DLX for $99 (unfortunately the website of Walmart is sold out), so I will check them out first.

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