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Problem with 49G+ update Message #1 Posted by David Ramsey on 20 Feb 2004, 8:07 p.m. Well, I downloaded the updater, ran the program, and copied the two files to an SD card. But when I try to update the calc, it tells me: NO CARD, OR ERROR CHECK CARD THEN PRESS ANY KEY But the card's there-- I can see files on it from the standard calc screens. It passes the calc's "card test". And the files are on the card (which I can verify with the Filer). The only out of the ordinary thing is that when I ran the installer on my PC, it said there was a problem executing "conn4.exe". But the files appear to be OK. Any ideas?

Re: Problem with 49G+ update Message #2 Posted by Ernie Malaga on 20 Feb 2004, 9:06 p.m., in response to message #1 by David Ramsey One problem I ran into on my first 49G+ update was that the SD card was not formatted correctly. It _must_ use the FAT16 format. -Ernie

Try looking at the SD Card Learning Module for the 49g+ Message #3 Posted by Gene Wright on 20 Feb 2004, 9:44 p.m., in response to message #2 by Ernie Malaga http://www.hp.com/calculators/graphing/49gplus/technical.html It is the second one on the list. The document contains a section about formatting the card. MUST be done in a DOS window using the command in the doc. Cheers...and thanks again for all the TI scanning! Gene

Re: Try looking at the SD Card Learning Module for the 49g+ Message #4 Posted by David Ramsey on 20 Feb 2004, 10:03 p.m., in response to message #3 by Gene Wright Thanks for the suggestions, but no joy. Oddly my 49 is missing the option to format the card from the system menu. Still, I formatted it under DOS as described in the document Gene mentioned, copied the file to it, and the results were the same. Again, the 49 can "see" the card just fine. I can see the two files (and even look inside the "Update.scp" file (which contains the name of the actual update file). It's a mystery...

Re: Try looking at the SD Card Learning Module for the 49g+ Message #5 Posted by Namir Shammas on 21 Feb 2004, 12:00 a.m., in response to message #4 by David Ramsey David, Did you check if the card is locked? There is a small lock latch. Make sure it is NOT set to lock mode. Namir

Re: Try looking at the SD Card Learning Module for the 49g+ Message #6 Posted by David Ramsey on 21 Feb 2004, 1:20 a.m., in response to message #5 by Namir Shammas No, it's not locked...but why should that matter? Actually, could someone e-mail me their copies of the update files HP49G123.BIN and UPDATE.SCP?

Re: Try looking at the SD Card Learning Module for the 49g+ Message #7 Posted by James M. Prange on 21 Feb 2004, 1:41 a.m., in response to message #3 by Gene Wright But Gene, with the version of DOS that came with my MS Windows 98SE system, FORMAT complains about invalid switches for the /FS:FAT and /A:8192. Perhaps these are for the Windows NT series or new with XP? MS Windows 98SE formats my card just fine. Also, I'm guessing that the /A:8192 is supposed to set the cluster size. That may be a good size with larger cards, but with my 128MB card, I use a cluster size of 2048. A larger cluster size would give me fewer clusters, and since I expect most of the files that I store on the card won't use even a full 2KB cluster, it would reduce the number of files that I could store on it. Regards, James Edited: 21 Feb 2004, 2:13 a.m.

Re: Try looking at the SD Card Learning Module for the 49g+ Message #8 Posted by Gene on 21 Feb 2004, 7:20 a.m., in response to message #7 by James M. Prange Well, I think the /A:8192 is optional, so that can be dropped. (The doc says it's optional, doesn't it?) I tested using WinXP. Silly me...one would think that DOS has been DOS for quite some time. :-) Gene

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