| My Audrey is suddenly not working. When I power it up, I get the usual startup animation and sounds, and then am taken to the screen where you set the date and time. I do this (note that the keyboard is working fine), and am then taken to the screen with the three overlapping blue "circles" to wait for the browser or whatever to open up. Unfortunately, this never happens -- I stay on the blue circle screen until the Audrey times out and goes to sleep.
During all this, none of the buttons have any effect, although typing on the keyboard once it's gone to sleep will wake it up. The activity light on the (3Com) Ethernet adapter flashes every so often, so something seems to be going on inside -- I can ping it from another machine on the network, so it seems to be alive. Also, if I detach the Ethernet adapter, the Audrey complains on startup that it's missing and that I should reattach it. It seems like it just needs a hard system reset, but the only way I've heard to do that is the "enter a bad password three times" trick, which does me no good since I can't get to that point. I've tried the alleged three-finger-salute of action-mail-browser. but nothing happens.
Does anybody have any clues about this, perhaps another way to do a hard reset? It's been a fun little device, and I hate to see it die this way.... | |
