iRex Reader 1000S: Screen corrupt?

[yingwu]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

It depends on what was causing the "line out" error. If it's a hardware/manufacturing defect, then you'll have to get the screen replaced. If the controller is having trouble activating the screen because the voltage from the battery is really low, then recharging should take care of it.

The way to figure out which case it is, is to recharge and see if that fixes the problem. If the "line out" doesn't go away then you should contact their tech support.

An expert!!! Yes.

[aegas]

The 'line out' error on my DR occurred again, for no particular reason. Actually, it started to happen only about a week after last time I posted about my DR 'fixed itself'.

Of course the right thing to do is to talk to iRex and send my DR to the Netherlands, but I hated to part with it for a few weeks. So I 'fixed' it myself this time.

I observed that if I put gentle pressure around the point on the top of the bezel where the bezel meets the line in problem, then the line out problem vanishes. I guess this could be some kind of problem in soldering or something similar. So I put a clip on that part of the bezel, and now I can use DR with no line out problem.

So far so good, except that I'm not sure whether this is a good enough fix or only a stopgap which will fail eventually. Perhaps I'll have to send it to iRex eventually, when I'm less busy and before the warranty expires.