MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

blackrat779 · 06-07-2009, 05:22 AM

Well I seemed to have fixed things, so panic over! What did I do?

Well even though it said it was at 100% charged I charged it overnight, my comp still didn't recognise it but it would charge.

This morning I took the SD card out and rebooted it while connected to the comp, still no go. I went to device manager/serial bus controllers on Vista 64 and uninstalled "unknown device" and then plugged/unplugged Gen 3 followed by search for drivers on internet. Restarted Gen 3 and after a lot of screen flashing from my book, my comp recognised it. Whoohoo.

Now here's the strange bit.....Once it was all back to normal I added my new books, unplugged and went off to read. First I put the SD card back in (it stops the dust getting in) and booted Gen 3 only to have it hang at the 3 dot screen again!!!!! What the heck! I took out the SD card, rebooted and all is well again.

What does this mean? The SD card has been in there since new. I had a look in the card and it seems to have a copy of all my books and a number of other files, my guess is that it is a copy of the Cybook directory.

I like the idea of extra storage and keeping the dust out, is there a way to fix this? Why is it not working now? If it just duplicates the Cybook directory is there any point in having it. Just one further clue, I just did the latest firmware upgrade using this card and it worked fine.

BTW thanks for the pointer towards the library, I found some books from my childhood.....Tom Swift by Appleton. I used to be sooo excited to get them from the library, I even bought one much later in life (I think they are difficult to find in the UK now). Thanks for any help you can give.

06-07-2009, 05:22 AM	#5
blackrat779 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: CyBook	Well I seemed to have fixed things, so panic over! What did I do? Well even though it said it was at 100% charged I charged it overnight, my comp still didn't recognise it but it would charge. This morning I took the SD card out and rebooted it while connected to the comp, still no go. I went to device manager/serial bus controllers on Vista 64 and uninstalled "unknown device" and then plugged/unplugged Gen 3 followed by search for drivers on internet. Restarted Gen 3 and after a lot of screen flashing from my book, my comp recognised it. Whoohoo. Now here's the strange bit.....Once it was all back to normal I added my new books, unplugged and went off to read. First I put the SD card back in (it stops the dust getting in) and booted Gen 3 only to have it hang at the 3 dot screen again!!!!! What the heck! I took out the SD card, rebooted and all is well again. What does this mean? The SD card has been in there since new. I had a look in the card and it seems to have a copy of all my books and a number of other files, my guess is that it is a copy of the Cybook directory. I like the idea of extra storage and keeping the dust out, is there a way to fix this? Why is it not working now? If it just duplicates the Cybook directory is there any point in having it. Just one further clue, I just did the latest firmware upgrade using this card and it worked fine. BTW thanks for the pointer towards the library, I found some books from my childhood.....Tom Swift by Appleton. I used to be sooo excited to get them from the library, I even bought one much later in life (I think they are difficult to find in the UK now). Thanks for any help you can give.