Bugger.

[Tom]

It appears that ipaqs, expansion jackets, compact flash cards and sunblock don't mix. After an unfortunate accident during a flight, my ipaq got covered in Nivia's finest. The ipaq seems to be quite happy, however, when I plug the CF card into the expansion jacket all hell breaks loose (wavy lines, clicks, etc). The instant I remove the expansion jacket, the ipaq comes back to life. If I insert the jacket without the cf card, its still happy.

Is there a way to test CF cards? I have another one for my camera, but I'm afraid that putting it in the expansion jacket (and vice versa with the camera) will damage it if it isn't actually broken.

 

[sibanac]

if you feel like beeing nasty, go to a photo shop with one of them DIY digital photo printers and plug it in that.

Or buy a cheap usb CF reader and try it on your own pc/lappy

 

[Tom]

hurrah!

Took the expansion jacket to bits and found dabs of factor 25 around the ipaq socket, cleaned it off and everything seems to be ok!