Has its internal memory backup battery been replaced? On Fri, Sep 27, 2024, 16:55 Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
> My long suffering 102 has a new problem. It’s had issues with odd day/date > display and in the past, sometimes would ghost-type random character > strings, but it’s been behaving perfectly for the last 9 months or so. > > Today, I went to turn it on and all I got was a black screen - all pixels > on. No other activity, and no response to reset. Only the contrast control > works (and it does power off of course). > > I put in a set of new batteries, with no change, but it did power up to > the home screen after connecting a power adapter and pressing reset. After > that, it ran seemingly happily, for a while, until it fell asleep, after > which it wouldn’t power up again, other than the same all-on screen. > > When I get it running with the power adapter, it shows that despite trying > an all-reset with the screen showing all-pixels, it still has the right > date/time, so I presume it isn’t even reading the reset button while in > that state. > > Ideas on possible causes? I have very minimal equipment - multimeter, > basically - but it would help to know what I might be looking for! > > Annoyingly, I was about to buy a ‘spare’ 102 at a reasonable price for > just these circumstances, because I use it a lot, but I waited for 15 > minutes too long! > > Andy
