On Monday 16 October 2006 04:52, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:48:00PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Earlier today I picked up the 770 (it was on charger) and touched the > > screen as I normally would to wake it up. When I tried to reconnect the > > wifi the browser died (Ok ... happened before) then the 770 itself died > > (this is new I did have 4 days uptime) and went to the white screen with > > the blue NOKIA. The progress bar moves across the bottom. When it gets > > to the right and tries to move to the screen with the two hands (ala > > Michealangelo) it goes dark and back to the NOKIA screen again... over > > and over and over. The only way to stop it at this point is to remove > > the battery. (power switch will not work) > > This happened to me once: the 770 rebooted, and then rebooted again, > without showing the desktop. The second reboot was successful. > > > This 770 is only about a week, week and a half old (got it around the > > 10th ordered a week before) has a 1gig card installed, running 2006 > > version of the OS. (It came with that). I tried calling tech support but > > despite the fact that the website lists Sunday hours they actually are > > closed on Sunday *sigh* > > > > Just curious. Has anyone here seen anything like this? If it were a > > full size box I'd suspect ram. Tried removing the 1gig chip and it > > didn't change the actions of the system. Any thoughts from anyone on > > this? > > The RS-MMC card is not used as RAM. The 770 has 64 megs of built-in RAM > (plus 128 megs of built-in flash memory, used as a "hard disk"). Some > people suspect it may be faulty and have been running memtest on it. I > do not thing there were conclusive results. I kind of ran 2 thoughts together. RAM suspect in a full size system and the possible that the detection of the RS-MMC card might cause a problem. (since I can't see the boot process) Sorry for the stream of consciousness. I went ahead and did the RMA move today. I miss it already *grin* James > > Marius Gedminas
