Yes, but as reported earlier, it came to its senses after being allowed to sit overnight with no batteries. I figure this scared it so badly that it decided to cooperate. :-) I've been using it all day and it's performing flawlessly. I figure these things have minds of their own, anyway, so to my mind, fear is usually as good a method of gaining the cooperation of a technology as is an engineering degree. <g> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richie Cavallaro" <richcav@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:44 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: Final message - I think this thing is going to have to go back to Louisville did you disconnect it from your computer before replacing the compact flash card? I think it said some where in the manual that you should disconnect from your pc before changing cards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7:21 AM Subject: [bookport] Re: Final message - I think this thing is going to have to go back to Louisville > The only change I made was to replace the 64 mb CompactFlash card that came > with the unit with a 1 gb card, but it worked after that. I tried reseating > and swapping out the cards. The unit was connected to the PC and suddenly, > it was showing that it was not connected and it was dead. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rich Hartness" <hartness@xxxxxxxx> > To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:57 PM > Subject: [bookport] Re: Final message - I think this thing is going to have > to go back to Louisville > > > Hi Walt, > > Have you tried removing and reseating the flash card? > > Did you make any other changes to your system since the BP last worked? > > I bet there's a way to revive it yet. > > Good luck, > > rich > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Book Port User List" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 8:56 PM > Subject: [bookport] Final message - I think this thing is going to have to > go back to Louisville > > > > Now, when I connect the BP to the PC via USB, I get a "USB device not > > recognized" error and a further message that "One of the USB devices > > connected to this computer has malfunctioned." Somebody please tell me > that > > this isn't as bad as I think it probably is. > > > > -- > > Walt Smith - Clearwater, FL > > walt@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > >