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ckbe · 05-16-03, 06:49 AM

Hi KnipKnup,

Thanks for sharing your experience. Guess what, it works again! I really don't know what happen but this is how the story goes.

When I posted on this website on the experience which I had, it was way past midnight local time after 3 hours of troubleshooting. I just give up and decided to call it a day. So before I tuck in, I called my friend who also bought the same CF card as mine to feedback to him that the CF card deal may not be as good as it seems. Guess what, he told me it works on his camera. He tested on his Canon camera and apparently it does not give him any problem at all.

Well, during my testing phase, my subject was a Fuji camera. I also have the same Canon camera as my friend but because my friend took my battery, i can't test it on the camera. Furstratred, I decided to get a replacement the next day from the manufacturer.

When I went back office, I decided to test it out on the Canon camera so i asked my friend to bring the camera along. When he plug it into his camera, everything went smoothly. Thinking my luck has to be worse than that, I asked him to try on his laptop, (I tried mine, it does not work saying manufacturer unknown). His laptop is running Windows XP, while mine is Windows 2000 SP3.

When he plug it into his laptop, it works beautifully! Imagine my frustration! If I would to return to the manufacturer, they will defintely refuse to replace it since it works. So to make sure, i tried inserting it into my Fuji camera again. It prompt me saying that the card is not initialize, do i want to format it.... Hmm same error again so sure I would go for yes thinking it would prompt me back saying Card error but instead, it went through successfully! After that no matter what I tried be it on the Axim, laptop, PC or camera, it just refuse to fail on me! So I guess it is false alarm afterall but it is definetely strange.

I have a feeling that maybe the header on the CF card got corrupted in the process of me playing with it.... I don't know how to explain why it works again.

Anybody who has similar experience care to explain?

Cheers
CKBE

05-16-03, 06:49 AM	#9 (permalink)
ckbe Aximsite Prospect Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 11 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	GUess what it works! Hi KnipKnup, Thanks for sharing your experience. Guess what, it works again! I really don't know what happen but this is how the story goes. When I posted on this website on the experience which I had, it was way past midnight local time after 3 hours of troubleshooting. I just give up and decided to call it a day. So before I tuck in, I called my friend who also bought the same CF card as mine to feedback to him that the CF card deal may not be as good as it seems. Guess what, he told me it works on his camera. He tested on his Canon camera and apparently it does not give him any problem at all. Well, during my testing phase, my subject was a Fuji camera. I also have the same Canon camera as my friend but because my friend took my battery, i can't test it on the camera. Furstratred, I decided to get a replacement the next day from the manufacturer. When I went back office, I decided to test it out on the Canon camera so i asked my friend to bring the camera along. When he plug it into his camera, everything went smoothly. Thinking my luck has to be worse than that, I asked him to try on his laptop, (I tried mine, it does not work saying manufacturer unknown). His laptop is running Windows XP, while mine is Windows 2000 SP3. When he plug it into his laptop, it works beautifully! Imagine my frustration! If I would to return to the manufacturer, they will defintely refuse to replace it since it works. So to make sure, i tried inserting it into my Fuji camera again. It prompt me saying that the card is not initialize, do i want to format it.... Hmm same error again so sure I would go for yes thinking it would prompt me back saying Card error but instead, it went through successfully! After that no matter what I tried be it on the Axim, laptop, PC or camera, it just refuse to fail on me! So I guess it is false alarm afterall but it is definetely strange. I have a feeling that maybe the header on the CF card got corrupted in the process of me playing with it.... I don't know how to explain why it works again. Anybody who has similar experience care to explain? Cheers CKBE