Re: Replace lithium battery

["Ottar Johansen" <otjohan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much for your fast and friendly reply. I just recently discovered the Sharp 3K community on the net, and am pleased to find that there are still sombody using this 10 year old machine. I have used mine off and on. As a journalist I use it for taking notes in interviews. My Sharp notes are much more readable than my hand written notes!

I have had a few problems with the machine locking up while typing and have not been able to see what keybard entries caused it, but now I have seen from one of  the FAQ lists.

My machine is quite beaten up, most of the paint has come off, and there is a nasty stripe on the monitor. Aside from a few data losses and some problems with batteries dying on me, I have found the machine very useful, although i feel a litte nervous until I have my files safely downloaded to the Sharp floppy drive.

I have been looking for safer internal memory then the e:, and I will now get the PCMCIA-flash adapter and try my 16 mb CF card. That is a lot of memory for the Sharp. I will also look for a Sony AC adapter, which I have been missing.

I understand there are  new(?) PC 3000 available at around $100 and will consider getting one. The Sharp is very good at what I use it for; entering text.

hilsen
Ottar Johansen,
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mobiltlf. 92092383
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven Utcke" <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Sharp PC 3000/3100 mailing list" <sharp-pc3k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Replace lithium battery


> Hello Ottar,
> 
> > The "replace lithium battery" warning keeps coming up even if I have
> > inserted a fresh lithium battery, several times. Apparently there is
> > no contact with the back-up battery, and I fear loosing data when
> > changing batteries. How can this be fixed?
> 
> It's hard to suggest a solution if it is a mechanical problem (at
> least without looking at it --- cleaning the contacts springs to
> mind).  However, I had similar problems which went away only after a
> reboot (and, in one case, a total reset) --- but obviously this isn't
> a viable solution if you do not have a backup of the data stored on
> the PC3k.
> 
> > Is it possible to buy memory cards anywhere? 
> 
> Sure, up to 32MB.
> 
> > I have a 16 MB Sandisk CF-card. Can it be used with the 3100? How?
> 
> Very likely.  Have a look at
> 
> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke/Laptop/sharp-pc3100.html#cf
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Sven
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