Hi Sherry, I just discovered how exercising the display can cure this annoying little problem just a few days ago so I guess we'll both have to test it for a while to see if it works. I still wo'nder why the Braille Display decides to do this though. I'll just stick with your tired theory for now.
Lindsay >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sherry Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected] >Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:12:36 -0700 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] braille display problem >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 >___ >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
