Tinybook power buttons - waking from sleep...?

Hi folks
My Tinybook just arrived, and seems to be working well. I suspect a FAQ might be needed, but I have a couple of questions.

1: to turn the device on, I seem to have to hold the power button for 2 seconds. A short press just flashes the power light. ANyone concur/comment?
2: If i press Fn-ZZZ, the device immediately powers off. I can't seem to wake it from this state!

Has it actually gone to a sleep state or does it just turn the screen off?

power light goes off and screen blanks. No flashing of power light or similar - just... nothing.

Those are normal operations for the Tinybook.

So the 'sleep' button instantly turns off and there's no 'sleep'?

ANy other gotchas we should know about?

Nah...just be careful installing new stuff. Make sure that any program you install that writes to the registry doesn't do something that will turn your T706 into a BRICK! ARRRGH! Okay, got that out of my system.

Which program bricked yours, Rich?

To that end, how about creating a registry export and having it re-import that every boot time at the top of the startup set

I bricked mine by trying to add some dlls to the windows folder...evidently, ones that it didn't like. I was being stupid at the time. Nothing really new. That was the first brick. The second one was playing with the registry...and I don't recall exactly what I was doing...but afterwards it wouldn't boot up at all, just hangs at the opening boot screen that says loading "windows ce". And once you do that...you can't get back into the machine to change it back.

I've always thought the T706 was hands above all other CE netbooks in construction and build, as well as operation, but it isn't as idiotproof as the Wm8505 machines...not by a long shot. And I'd love to see one of these that as the Linux build on it.

If the registry was reintroduced programatically at startup, it could save that problem.

hmmm... Problem is that if it's easy to brick, I don't really want to experiment too much! I'll try to get in contact with someone who knows more about the device startup.

You know someone from the developer?

Yeah, I hesitate to edit .hv files directly from/on a TB.

You could either use a regedit to import a .reg export of just the important parts of it (the clsid cluster and system hives) it or you could have the entire .hv file copied back at boot time (although that is fairly self-defeating).

The problem is a few .hv and .vol files can't copied. The idea is to have such files copied onto a SD card so that Rich's right-mouse click while powering on can help those bricks to relive their lives.