Jornada 680 freaked out!

Well, I received my Jornada 680 in the mail today and it's a sweet little device, all was working great, I set-up activesync, installed Media Player and made myself a neat little access document, all good.

Then... I thought it'd be a good idea to tryout my Xircom Ethernet card with it (as I can gather from the HCL, perfectly compatible) turns out this wasn't a great idea, as when i opened the device I was greeted with a DOS like screen saying "Hewlett-Packard copyright 1999" and at the bottom what looked like the output of a bootloader, saying something like "Starting WB..." before jumping to the (!) WinCE welcome wizard. . .

LUCKILY nothing important was lost, but this really puzzled me and wondered if anyone know why this happened?

Thanks, Tral1z

Wow! never see something like that before on my Jornada 728... Could be an over-current required by the pcmcia card (maybe?!) ?

Edited by ntware 2011-04-19 2:35 AM

Were you on AC or battery at the time?

I was on battery, just came off a good charge.

Was a viable coin cell present?

Yep, backup battery says it's good. I haven't had the chance to run the main battery down enough yet to test it properly though.

I've seen the older 300 series do it, so I think I'd tend to agree that perhaps it couldn't provide the load at the time of insertion. Is it a 3.3 or 5v card?

Ahh, it's a 5v card. It the only PC Card network card I have at the moment, so hope it won't do this all the time. :/

How unbelievably bizarre? I've just tried inserting the card again, and it's decided to work perfectly, asking for the driver! Thanks for all the help with this, let's just hope it doesn't do that again

Most HPC's - with a couple of exceptions (anything that needed a pcmcia.dll update) - support 5v cards, you may have had the CPU busy, the screen on full and jabbed it in there at the wrong moment.

... btw you do have the pcmcia.dll update installed from H/PC:Update?

The previous owner looked as if they'd installed nearly everything from the H/PC update page, it used to have some Cisco drivers and whatnot on it too. All that was unfortunately lost though, so I'll be sure to update it all again.