Registered: Jun 2002
Location: By the toilet.
Posts: 174

Screen flickers; SCARY!

The screen on my Visor Pro began flickering badly just now (all the pixel seem to jump around in the image). I was doing the usual stuff when I noticed that some image shades began flickering. Frantic, I turned the device off for a while, then turned it back on, but it still flickers.

I thought it might be FastCPU, because I'm using that software. I turned FastCPU off and reset the device, the flickering only got worse! ALL of the pixels were jumping in their images. Only after I reset the second time did the flickering go away. Now there is no flickering.. yet, but I hope it won't come out again.

Please tell me this is caused by FastCPU. I used that software for something like a week already but didn't notice any flickering until just now. Also, I had 2 hacks on at the time (popup calc and crash) which I also turned off after the second pixel dancing afffair.

Am I looking at a warranty change???

I do hope not.

Anyone had similar problems?

Oh yeah, I've never, ever dropped my Visor. At least not yet as of this writing.

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By the way, anyone know how to sync Eudora 5.1 for the PC with the Visor? I can't seem to do it.

Last edited by Digisane on 07-13-2002 at 11:37 AM

Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Toronto, CANADA
Posts: 21

The screen flickering can be caused by a third party software or a hardware problem
Best way to test it is to synch up to a PC, then hard reset
Then before synching again to put your data back onto the visor, go to your handspring directory C:\Prog Files\Handspring or Palm\Username\Backup and cut and paste that backup folder onto the desktop, so therefore when you sync no applications will go over to the visor. Give it a few days and see if it flickers again, then if not, put the Backup folder back into the directory and sync, so then see if it starts flickering again with the software on it. That way you'll know if it's hardware or software. If hardware, call tech support for repair.

Registered: Jun 2002
Location: By the toilet.
Posts: 174

Dancing pixels

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Originally posted by Limitles
The screen flickering can be caused by a third party software or a hardware problem
Best way to test it is to synch up to a PC, then hard reset
Then before synching again to put your data back onto the visor, go to your handspring directory C:\Prog Files\Handspring or Palm\Username\Backup and cut and paste that backup folder onto the desktop, so therefore when you sync no applications will go over to the visor. Give it a few days and see if it flickers again, then if not, put the Backup folder back into the directory and sync, so then see if it starts flickering again with the software on it. That way you'll know if it's hardware or software. If hardware, call tech support for repair.

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