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Old 03-03-06, 02:49 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sam Ontario
AC adator has a nominal value of 5V and the battery has a nominal value of 3.6V!
How come you have 12V from Axims?
This thread has gone a bit off-topic. The 12v mention was about PCs in general, not Axims.
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Old 03-03-06, 02:58 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Just remember when people overclock their machines, they are simply using software, and we all know that you can puch a processor too far.
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This thread is a really good example of what happens when uninformed people get together and have a battle of egos. All it does is confuse people with erroneous information.
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Well maybe if we throw enough information at both sides they will be right where they were at the start, in the middle with no clue
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Well maybe if we throw enough information at both sides they will be right where they were at the start, in the middle with no clue
You got the "no clue" part right! ;)
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I've heard if you stand on one leg while turning your Axim on, on a odd numbered Tuesday .....it'll turn on.
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How come you have 12V from Axims?
It's generated internally for internal Flash writing (external Flash memory cards have their own power supplies). There's also an inverter that outputs several hundred volts for the backlight lamp, BTW.

As for the whole problem, it's yet another reason to go with open source Linux.
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What, are they all named Ravi?
Seriously, typical flash ROM has the habit of wearing out after 10000 read/write cycles. I believe one difference between the X50 and the X51 series is that they used faster, hardier ROM so it could withstand being the primary partition of the OS. I don't know why they retrofitted the X50 line with WM5, especially considering this issue.
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Surly the answer would be to install the opsys on a cf card then if the rom is so brittle.

10000 read writes? Maybe that is more than the axims life span?

Hardware becomes obsolete so quickly nowadays.
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Seriously, typical flash ROM has the habit of wearing out after 10000 read/write cycles.
More like 100,000 to a million for modern chips. The 10,000 figure is mostly for very old chips.
If I were to design an embedded system OS, I would save modified data to the RAM and write it to Flash when the file editing is finished or when a certain time passes (or when the sync command is called either manually or by a program).
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Old 03-03-06, 06:31 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Software can't physically damage memory anyway. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
I've flashed my first CDRW drive 6 years ago trying to upgrade it's ROM. Made it a paper weight. My DVD-ROM drive same problem 3 years later. Also a MP3 player too. My heart skipped a few beats while I was upgrading the BIOS on my PC, AXIM and also on my DVD recorder that's hooked up to my TV. And I just got my brand new Sony DVD +- R dual layer dvd recorder and I'm about to upgrade that too that too :)

Point is 3 out 7 times I completely bricked the devices upgrading it's Firmware via SOFTWARE.
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