2010/8/26 mike wilson <[email protected]>: > yesterday, I brought up an image on the screen and handed the camera to > someone else to view. From their puzzled look, something was wrong. Looking > again at the screen, it was covered in vertical lines, of varying thickness, > of pastel (at least, no vivid) colours, interspersed with dashed black lines > one or two pixels thick. > > More worryingly, none of the buttons elicited a response, even the on/off > switch. > > Just as I was beginning to seriously panic, the off switch worked (not > immediately - it was left in the off position and finally worked after about > three seconds) and everything returned to normal. > > No recurrence. So far. > > I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give > trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I > have fondled. Apart from that, I can think of no reason for what occured. > Anyone else have an idea?
Sounds like a circuitry problem. I had that garbled image twice in a day on my pda. About 10 hours of use later it croaked. System board replacement cost was prohibitve. OTOH my Optio WP has done that numerous times w/o subsequent kroaquage so far so it may or may not be terminal but I can confirm that my WP also exhibits random freezing, sometimes at startup, sometimes during use which can only be resolved by pulling the battery. My advice is to take it back for at least a check. Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
