Re: NTLK Failed PC card slot

From: Victor Rehorst (victor@gear.torque.net)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 08:50:19 EST


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, John Baxter wrote:

> Has anyone ever had a PC card slot fail in their precious Newton?
>
> I have a UMP2K with about three months daily use on it. After working
> perfectly for three months, it seems that no card I put into the
> upper slot will work in that slot. The lower slot works fine. Anyone
> have any ideas what I might do? Thanks.

This exact same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. For some uncanny
reason a brain wipe did not fix it, but the
"remove-all-power-and-cards-and-wait-for-an-hour" trick did.

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