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Compact Flash problem on 720

docsdad Page Icon Posted 2014-04-01 2:19 AM
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I have a Jornada 720 that I let set around until the battery went dead. I recently got it out and tried to get it back running. I can not get it to recognize any compact flash memory card. When it finally acknowledges it by coming up with unrecognized pcc card and wants a driver to run it. Any suggestions as to what I should do. At one point it asked if I wanted to format the card so it could be used. When I said yes, it started and then came back with an error message and quit the format. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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hmascience Page Icon Posted 2014-04-01 2:37 AM
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How large (and how many) CF cards have you tried? Have you tried to format it on a different device (i.e., desktop card reader)?
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2014-04-01 3:21 AM
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One way might be to format it on your PC as FAT16 or FAT32 and do a scan disk on it. I think that fixed my problem once.
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2014-04-01 12:56 PM
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Another idea is download the utility in the SCL called "Flash Format" and test the card on your HPC.
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docsdad Page Icon Posted 2014-04-02 8:44 PM
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I have tried several cards, The first one was the one that had been in the 720 before with hpc 2000 programs on it. Note when it fails to format, I get error code 31 when it fails to format. any one no what this means.
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2014-04-02 8:50 PM
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Ahhh...try a pcmcia adapter, could be your connector is bad in the cf slot...
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docsdad Page Icon Posted 2014-04-02 10:21 PM
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Same problem in the pc slot, it does not recognize that there is a card in the pc slot. Tried two different adapters. These worked before.
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2014-04-02 11:11 PM
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Very strange....suggest you try a hard reset of your Jornada and see what happens. Possiblility that some program overwrote one of the drivers or something else.

Also double check the formatting option and make sure they are not formatted NTFS from your desktop but are in fact Fat16.
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michelbel Page Icon Posted 2014-04-04 7:15 AM
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Alternatively I think you may have shorted pins in one of the slots (pcmcia or CF). Try to look inside the slots with a loupe. If you see one very short pin, it may have been pushed back and shorted another pin invisibly inside. Carefully pull it back again to the right length with a small needle nosed pliers. This has worked for me several times. Otherwise you have to disassemble the system to check the slots for a short or a flattened pin.
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