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Title: Screen Blank After Booting Into Qtopia
Post by: drnick on August 18, 2005, 11:08:21 am
This morning I deleted around 1 Gb of music off of my sl-c3000's internal microdrive, and added another 1 Gb or so of new music.  I figured that after moving so much data around that the drive would be fairly fragmented and could use some cleaning out.  So I proceeded to defragment the drive with the windows defragmenter.  After the drive finished defragmenting I unmounted the drive safely and removed the cable from the back of the Z.  After the cable was removed the screen went blank.  The Z was still on and i could tap the scrren and hear it beep.  I also hit the Home and Power buttons to make sure it just didnt go into suspend.  The screen did not return.  So then I removed the battery cover and performed a hard reset.  The console started scrolling by like normal, and the graphical "please wait a moment" screen came up.  But then about halfway through the "please wait" screen the screen went blank again.  The Z made the opening logon "chime" as normal too.  I could still hit the OK button as if the prompt for the time and date came up and i could see the HD light flash as if it was still booting Qtopia but the screen was atill all black.  Once again I could still tap the screen and hear it beep.  

I'm hoping i havent screwed up the Z with a simple defragment.  I can still access to OK+Power menu.  I'm at work and I can perform no other testing until tonight.  I am using a SL-C3000 with Kernel 18b and Cacko 1.23

Would reflashing / Zero-ing help?  I can provide other details as I have the Z with me here at work.
Title: Screen Blank After Booting Into Qtopia
Post by: daniel3000 on August 18, 2005, 11:36:52 am
I also have a blank screen occasionally, but figured out it is the light setting which is set to "light out" for some reason.
Try pressing Fn-4 a few times. Does this help?

daniel
Title: Screen Blank After Booting Into Qtopia
Post by: drnick on August 18, 2005, 11:45:12 am
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I also have a blank screen occasionally, but figured out it is the light setting which is set to "light out" for some reason.
Try pressing Fn-4 a few times. Does this help?

daniel
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OMG. Don't I feel silly. Yes Fn-4 indeed gets my screen back.  I would have been pulling my hair out otherwise! Thanks!
Title: Screen Blank After Booting Into Qtopia
Post by: icruise on August 18, 2005, 02:51:46 pm
I'm glad you got your Zaurus back to working, but I'm not really sure it's necessary to defrag the microdrive.