Hi
This will depend on how bad the damage is and how confident you are
playing with electronics.
First, I'm assuming that your BN is out of it's warranty period
otherwise you shouldn't attempt to do anything.
Next, if you read my recent message on changing the battery and get
to the point where the unit is open, you'll notice that the main
circuit board is partially attached to the base panel. This board
houses the CF slot, along with most other things. If you can feel
something loose when the unit is open it's likely to be the edge of
the CF slot which has got broken. The only function of the edges of
the slot is to guide the CF card correctly into the slot to mate with
the many-pinned connector at the end of it. It's possible that you
might be able to carefully break off the broken slot edge and still
have enough left to guide your card to where it needs to be, but only
you will know that and only when you have the unit open.
I'm pretty sure HW won't, or perhaps can't, replace just the slot. I
would imagine that the main board is made for them as a unit and they
may well not have the equipment which allows them to unsolda and
resolda a multi-pin slot like this on a multi-layer circuit board.
All this is just my thoughts and there could be something else
altogether wrong that I haven't thought of, but you did ask.
Finally, I have an adapter which allows me to use the PCMCIA slot on
the righthand side of the BN as a Compact Flash slot. the card comes
up as a PC disc in file manager and would allow you to continue to
use your CF cards if you didn't know about this already.
Hope this is of some help
All the best
John
At 00:07 27/09/2011, you wrote:
Hi all,
I tried to send this message from a different account but am not
sure it went through so am re-sending. The compact flash card slot
on the back of my BrailleNote is no longer working; it seems like a
piece must have somehow gotten detached, as I can feel a loose
piece. I have no idea how this might have happened; this
BrailleNote has never been dropped or roughly handled, and it was
working fine just moments ago. So, is there any way to fix this
myself, or will I need to send it to the company? I am assuming the
latter but wanted to check.
Thanks...
Lucy
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