Mark, What hardware failure would have the hard drive working, have the card readers working, have the display working, but not allow the cards to be saved to the hard drive?
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 10/18/11, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Epson service sucks > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 11:34 AM > [Default] On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 > 08:13:16 -0700 (PDT), Rick Womer > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >I have a P3000 viewer that I have used a fair amount > when traveling. > > > >Recently it lost its ability to download files from SD > or CF cards. I can view the images on the cards, and I > can view images already on the hard drive, but the download > doesn't work. > > > >Emailed Epson support; they told me to call an > independent service center on Long Island. > > > >Called them; all they do is send the units on to Epson, > and charge $289. > > > >$289 to re-flash a chip somewhere? No way. > > What you're experiencing sounds like a hardware problem, so > it's > probably "$289 to get a refurb replacement". > > Sad to say, those P3000 and other similar model viewers > probably fall > into the "replace rather than repair" category now. I > expect that > tablet devices will soon force them out of the marketplace > altogether. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
