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Usually, when I get an error that causes a forced reset I can just hit the soft-reset pin. Usually...

However, this has happened a couple times now, it gets stuck in a reset loop. It resets, and then seems like it resets again. There is no way to stop the reset loop. I am usually forced to do a hard reset at this point... This REALLY sucks. Two days ago, far from the office, my cradle, and my computer, my Visor dropped into the dreaded "reset-loop". There was nothing I could do except a hard reset, and then I'm screwed. I have none of the info I need, etc.

My thought is that this is either the result of a hardware/O.S. glitch or it's some program that I have installed. I gather from the others on this board that other people have had this same problem. Any thoughts on how to fix this? If this happens too often, then the visor loses it's value. If I can't count on it to be there when I need it, then it's worse than Windows!

Frustrated!

Brian

Have you tried taking the batteries out for a few hours to totally reset it?

One of my first Visors, about 6 months ago, did that right out of the box. I returned it instantly because nothing would fix it. I would immediately contact Support. They have been much better lately.

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Brian,

You may want to try doing a 'warm' reset instead of a soft or hard reset. A warm reset is done by holding down the Up key while doing a soft reset. This warm reset prevents any program, that normally loads automatically, from loading. Try deleting the last program or two that you loaded to see if they're causing the problem.

(and I'm also brianp...)

I've ran into the same prob. I'm thnking it is a launcher I'm running called Silver Screen. It has happened 2 days in a row now. I'm going to remove it and see how it goes.
Boy, am i sure glad I got the backup mod last week

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Rose's are Red
My Visor is Blue....

It is a definite glitch with Silver Screen. The same thing happened to me the other day right after I installed Silver Screen and then tried to delete it.

I have never had that problem with SilverScreen, but the newer version (1.3) may solve it for you. It just came out today.

[This message has been edited by na2rboy (edited 03-28-2000).]

This has been happening to me about once every two weeks lately. I did have Silver Screen installed but quickly learned my lesson from that one.

Thanks for the info on the "warm" reset- I'll hvae to try that one.

I've been able to cure the flashing P by doing a number of hard resets in a row. Leaving the batteries out overnight may help too.

One way I know to cause the reset loop is to reset the visor while the OS is trying to perform an important function, like memory management--if your visor freezes, give it a minute or two to unfreeze before using your paperclip.

I got the cycling splashscreen/soft-reset loop even w/o silverscreen or another launcher.
I suspect that either it is an OS glitch or some problem with Hackmaster. As long as I didn't run Hackmaster, I never had this problem. But might also just be a coincidence. I ran Hackmaster and various Hacks for about a month w/o any problems before it started. Is it possible that the Hacks slowly screw up your system until then the system hangs (the loop)?
The weird thing is that some people on this board seem to run Hackmaster and tons of Hacks w/o any problems (at least they didn't mention any). Or is it just a particular combination of hacks/programs.
To figure that out it would take weeks...

I could theoretically live w/o Hackmaster and hacks, but some hacks are simply very convenient (BatteryLevel, MiddleCaps, etc.)

mc9

There is a problem with HackMaster. For more, and the workaround see http://discussion.visorcentral.com/...TML/000560.html