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sarikan · 12-15-2009, 11:46 AM

My DR1000S has a brand new problem. It can't boot. The bottom light, and up and down arrow lights on the right all switch on, and the boot screen appears, while the top light blinks red, after blinking yellow for a few seconds.
I watch the boot screen, animating, until the battery dies. Two days ago, sometime after the 6th or so reset, it booted normally. Yesterday, I simply could not boot the device, and I had it drain its battery at this attempting-to-boot state.
Why? I mean seriously, why? I used this device very carefully, I applied patches, and over a year after spending £500 I am left with a device that has more problems than ever. As a PhD student, I believe that £500 spend like this gives me the right to swear a lot, but I'm still not trying to do that. I am so tired of these mysterious problems popping up every once in a while. I simply want to boot this thing up and read a couple of pdfs, and it is now barely functioning (not functioning at all at the moment), thanks to brilliant updates released by the producer.

Anyway, just in case someone has encountered this (this is different from my previous red light booting error), I'd like to know if there are any solutions.

Kind regards
Seref Arikan

12-15-2009, 11:46 AM	#1
sarikan Zealot Posts: 131 Karma: 34 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: none	DR 1000S and fighting the urge to use profanity.... My DR1000S has a brand new problem. It can't boot. The bottom light, and up and down arrow lights on the right all switch on, and the boot screen appears, while the top light blinks red, after blinking yellow for a few seconds. I watch the boot screen, animating, until the battery dies. Two days ago, sometime after the 6th or so reset, it booted normally. Yesterday, I simply could not boot the device, and I had it drain its battery at this attempting-to-boot state. Why? I mean seriously, why? I used this device very carefully, I applied patches, and over a year after spending £500 I am left with a device that has more problems than ever. As a PhD student, I believe that £500 spend like this gives me the right to swear a lot, but I'm still not trying to do that. I am so tired of these mysterious problems popping up every once in a while. I simply want to boot this thing up and read a couple of pdfs, and it is now barely functioning (not functioning at all at the moment), thanks to brilliant updates released by the producer. Anyway, just in case someone has encountered this (this is different from my previous red light booting error), I'd like to know if there are any solutions. Kind regards Seref Arikan Last edited by sarikan; 12-15-2009 at 11:49 AM.