Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply. I should have realised that the firmware is loaded at boot, since there are firmware files. I don't know why I didn't suss that - I can be a bit thick sometimes...
> > 1. Device seems sluggish, as if it's doing something in the background. > > 2. Touchscreen is unresponsive and often misses 'clicks'. > > 3. Device hangs when the wireless is activated. > > These are all symptoms of "normal" Windows CE functioning ;-I. I can't argue with that, though my Hx4700 was even more slow than normal, to the point that it was almost unusable, which makes me wonder whether there are any non-volatile bits of the ACX100 that can be written to, causing this sort of effect. As you say though, it might have been a more general hardware failure. I noticed that the backup battery would run out very fast after the main battery was disconnected. > The only thing you might attribute to Linux is inefficient > power management which could lead to higher device temperatures over > longer periods of time. That could be a possibility with my unit, though I tended not to use it for very long periods. I may have done one or twice though (okay, perhaps more than twice!) but I rarely loaded the CPU much. I think about all I did was play Infocom games on Frotz, via ssh. > So, if that will cheer you up, number devices dying with WinCE > running is much more than those with Linux ;-). BUT.. mine's got WinCE on it now! (shock!) I think I might try Ramdisk Rescue since it doesn't require flashing. Deep down though, I'll always be a Linux guy, which is why I hardly used the iPAQ when it had Windows on it, so I'll be using Linux again. Besides, I can't stop meddling (perhaps that was what really did it?). Cheers, Lex _______________________________________________ Hx4700-port mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/hx4700-port
