Hi Lindsay, Well, your suggestion seems to have worked. for now. I opened up a web Braille book and started it at the top of the document and put it on automatic scroll. For the first five minutes, I could hear the braille display mechanism moving inside, but nothing was coming out on the display. Then, suddenly, it began to show braille and continued to do so for another half hour. Then I stopped it and checked. Every item on the main menu showed up as it was supposed to do. I wonder if the fix was always so simple, and my poor machine never needed to be repaired the last time. But that's ok, because that's when I got the new mother board and all that. Thank you for the tip. Now I know what to do when the little thing goes nuts again. i had been reading a lot of web braille and email on the BN before it happened this time, maybe, it just got tired.
sherry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindsay Yazzolino Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:42 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: re: [Braillenote] braille display problem Hi Sherry, A similar thing happens with my display sometimes. Every once in a while, it will distort characters, especially those at the end of the display. At the end of the display, the letters are cut off and instead there is a mess of what seem to be random characters. Also, sometimes I will see a mixture of full eight-dot cells and characters across the entire display. I don't know how to fix it but the problem seems to come and go. It seemed to shape up last time it decided to do this (which was a few days ago) after I exercised the Braille display for a few minutes. Lindsay > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sherry Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "braille note list" <[email protected] >Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:45:53 -0700 >Subject: [Braillenote] braille display problem >Hi, >My BN had this problem before, and my rehab people had it returned to Human >ware and fixed it. Now it seems to be happening again. I don't know if i >can get them to send it in for repairs a second time. I use the BN almost >exclusively with braille, so it would be a huge loss to me. I thought I'd >try to find out if there was anything I could do at home to try to fix it. >Let's take the main menu. If i use the space bar, to the thumb keys to >scroll down the menu, the BN is beginning not to show everything in braille. >It might show word processor, and then not show email. if I'm reading a >document or book, sometimes, it will be blank, or sometimes it will show >just a few dots, scattered around on the display. if I turn on speech, >speech is reading what it should, but it isn't showing up in Braille. This >just started happening while I was on my trip to California last week. I >had too many other worries then, so I didn't really pay attention. But this >morning I went to get some info, an found the display doing this. Any >suggestions? Do I have to send this in for repair? if so, I guess my BN >days are history for a while, because i certainly can't afford it right now. >Sherry >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
