fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip M Gieszczykiewicz) (06/04/90)
Greetings. I got a HP 31E... It's one of the very first ones, I believe. I seems to be BRAINDEAD. When I turn it on the 0.0000 appears and stays for as long as I keep it on. However, as soon as I press any key, any key, it flashes some _weird_ numbers and has one of many "fits". It can either turn the display off, do what the key is meant to do, flash a 0.0000 back on, blank the dispay, or, plainly, go banannas... I thought that is was just the connectors and the like but I cleaned all of them with alcohol and made sure that they TOUCH everywhere. All connections are FIRM. I know that because whatever it has on the display does not change when I "bang" it against the table :-) It seems to be an electronic problem... Most of the chips are unmarked. There is one big one, 3 small ones, and a small DC-DC converter (or DC-AC?). One interestion note is that the memory feature doesn not work. The only function that works is F - FIX - number this sets the number of decimal places after the point. It works sometimes but if I turn it off and back on it does not remember... should it? This is long... I think that HP discontinued this one a WHILE back... So support is not easy (read:possible) Anyone? Any retired HP repairmen???? Take care. P.S. Please use e-mail... some people get "touchy" :-) -- _______________________________________________________________________________ "The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 10 years Filip Gieszczykiewicz "..of future fame...." "Ok! So I have a dream..." FMGST@PITTVMS or fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"