Hello everyone I thought I'd start a new thread with a more appropriate title. This will teach me to operate a computer at nearly 3AM. Boy I'm feeling it today, how i managed in my 20s I have no idea.
So it looks like my NADSbox is a little worse for wear, already talking to Ken about how I might revive my poor little device. I've spent the last 6 years caring for my father with dementia so all the toys and hobbies had to be packed away until such time normal life could resume. My m100 has been forever looking at me from the shelf, wondering when I'm going to use it again. I'd only just bought the NADsbox in 2019, when my father started going down hill, so barely got to use it (Dratz) I'd put it in a drawer, thinking it would be safe, but somehow the SDcard slot became damaged, it wasn't I thought major. Just the metal shield that goes over the top, one metal tab came away from the pcb, however this also resulted in the car ejection spring going bye bye. Last night I took to repair the damage, soldered the metal tab down, refreshed the solder joints on the pins of the SD slot, just in the event any other joints had lifted which i couldn't see. I had some issue with the card not being detected when inserted, but eventually this went away, but then the device started to flash and wouldn't stop. I couldn't find anything in the manual, so assumed maybe the onboard software might have become corrupt. I saw there was a recovery jumper, followed the instructions. Which I've included below. 1. Power the NADSBox off. 2. Open the NADSBox case by removing the 4 screws on the back cover. Note that two of the screws are located under the battery compartment cover. 3. Locate and remove the jumper from the Vcc posts on J8 (see Figure 20). 4. Install the jumper on header J5, the “Recover” header. 5. Turn the NADSBox power on and wait 2-3 seconds. The Status LED will flash. 6. When the Status LED stops flashing, the recovery operation is complete. 7. Remove the jumper from header J5 and return it to the Vcc posts on J8. 8. Carefully place the NADSBox cover back on and screw the two halves together. Everything was going great until step 5-6, the blue LED didn't stop flashing, in fact it remained almost constantly lit, with a bit of flickering for 3-4 minutes. Which is when i noticed the smell nobody wants to smell, that certain bouquet of "something is getting warm". At this point, flickering LED or not, i turned it off. Rebooted and now it lights up, but doesn't communicate with the m100 or even flicker when the memory card is inserted. Sorry for the long post, if you got this far, thank you! It's nice to be back, albeit dealing with a technical problem. On the upside, I was able to transfer some text files to my m100 this morning, so armed with my REX (which does work!!), I might be able to take the M100 to costa for some writing. Best wishes James -- My retro tech blog and general ramblings http://bytemyvdu.wordpress.com/
