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SD card causes x3i to lock up
I had a problem that plauged me for some time and I fixed today and thought I might post the sorted tale that someone else might benifit.
I had removed one of my SD cards from my x3i right before a trip to copy some shrunkin DVD files to it for the plane ride. The copy went fine, then I put the card back in the Axim and the unit would lock up hard. No response from the screen taps, manual buttons or anything. A soft reset just hung on the Dell splash screen. I tried several cards (that had worked fine previously) and they all did the same thing. I thought my Axim bit the big one.
After trying everything I could, installed all the latest patches, hard reset, etc. I cracked open the case and immediatly saw the problem. A small bit of foil, 3mm square, had worked it's way into the SD card slots spring contacts and shorted 2 of them together. I could not see the foil from the slot entrance because it was parallel to the walls of the slot. Once I removed it and reassembled the thing it all worked great.
The foil bit seems to be a bit of trash that must have been in my pocket and worked it's way into the slot.
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