CF and internal memory problem

[Peter Batah]

@Palagic456 I can't comment on best practice. Personally, I shut my DM down when I am done with it only because I do not use it on a daily basis. Nor am I tracking any one other than myself (time permitting). From what I have been told or read , leaving it on may lead to the display heating up. I suppose that would be difficult to avoid. Good luck with your CF reader. Peter

 

[Headroom]

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[Peter Batah]

Wax on...Wax off!

 

[Palagic456]

Been a while - but I finally broke down and bought a used CF card reader off eBay for $150. Installed it last night and NOTHING CHANGED. Still cant save anything as it says "Operation failed, press enter". I've tried different cards, including the new 128MB ScanDisk one I purchased which is on the supported list. Once in a while when I boot, it will say "project data has changed, do you want to load from CF card or ..." But if I do choose to load from CF card, it says "Operation failed, press enter". So.................. This is very frustrating. Surely someone out there has figured this out. At this point, I don't know if:
1. The "new" CF card reader is also bad
2. There is some other upstream component that is bad
3. There is a bad ribbon cable (I re-seated both ends.)
4. Could this be related to a dying CMOS battery? I'm sure it's due, but I fear replacing it now will erase all my current settings (which I DONT WANT.)

I would really appreciate it if someone who finally figured out this obviously common problem - would share the solution.

 

[Palagic456]

Has Anyone out there figured out this dreaded and extremely common problem? I don't want to buy another used CF card reader if that's not the problem. HELP

 

[cmaffia]

First off this is not common at all. 3 or 4 posts on the forum is no where near the majority when there are thousands of these units manufactured. My hunch is its a symptom of a bad Mainboard.