Re: [NTLK] Dead 2100 touch screen ?

This happened to me once also but in my case the whole thing died.
What I did was I bought a can of contact cleaner then I opened up the
Newton and spray everywhere I see contacts. Took the battery out and
left it for a week and then put back new battery and voila it started
and everything is fine. Maybe you can try this too.

Robert

On 29 Mar 2008, at 8:48 AM, SbM wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Bad news : my 2100's touch screen seems to be dead. The display is OK,
> but the machine doesn't react at all when I press the stylus on the
> screen. I can't even calibrate it, it's as if there was no touch
> screen at all (at least the "touch" part).
>
> I opened the 2100, I cleaned the touch screen cable contacts with
> alcohol (as advised on Frank Gründel's web site), I also cleaned the
> area around the screen just in case, cleaned the gold contacts on the
> motherboard, and reassembled the unit : doesn't work any better :-(
>
> I'm stuck here. Ever heard of such a problem ?
> --
> SbM
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> <http://sbm.ordinotheque.free.fr>
>
>
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