[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Re-installing CT-PC89E original firmware ...

[Adam Gill]

Hi Jon,

I would be very grateful if you could ...... that would be interesting 
to see if it can be fixed ..... I could give it tomorrow  ....

I have to go to airport to pick up my cousin @ 21:00, so how about I 
give it to you around 19:30 - Admiralty?

Adam


Jonathan Ervine wrote:
> Very odd. It seems that you might have a defective unit ... All the 
> other ones seem to 'just work' which is probably of little 
> consolation. If you want I could have a look at it if you're around at 
> the weekend, however, if it doesn't work, there's not much I'll be 
> able to do.
>
> Even with no SD card inserted pressing all three buttons 
> simultaneously for about 3-5 seconds to power on the computer should 
> still bring up the red Chinese text.
>
> Jon
>
> On 12 Mar 2010, at 16:27, Adam Gill wrote:
>
>> Right now ........... absolutly nothing!! .. black screen - no power ...
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> Jonathan Ervine wrote:
>>> On 12 Mar 2010, at 15:56, Adam Gill wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>> Can you remind us what exactly we have to put on ther 2gb ..... how 
>>>> to format it ...what to unpack on the sd card ... can the data be 
>>>> copied there or how to do .. 
>>>>
>>>> I just cannot get my netbook to boot  ..... however many times I  
>>>> try or however many different ways i put the data on the sd card  ....
>>>>
>>>> There must be a wat to get this netbook to boot without having to 
>>>> send it back to the factory ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> First off the SD card *must* be smaller than 4GB in capacity.
>>> Then it must be formatted with the FAT filesystem. This is how every 
>>> card I've ever bought has come pre-formatted as, so it's likely that 
>>> you won't have to worry about formatting or partitioning the card.
>>> You then simply have to copy on the contents of 
>>> the http://lkcl.net/arm_systems/CT-PC89E/ct-pc89e-firmware.tgz archive 
>>> file to this SD card.
>>> Power off the netbook, and whilst pressing the left and right 
>>> corners of the mouse button, so that both 'buttons' are pressed, 
>>> power on the netbook. If it all goes well, you should get blue text. 
>>> If it can't read the card or the card is too large (or doesn't have 
>>> the files required) then it will be red text. If you haven't pressed 
>>> the buttons correctly it will just boot as normal.
>>>
>>> What are you currently seeing happen Adam? Red, blue or no text?
>>>
>>> Jon
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