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Fixing an HP 32SII
Message #1 Posted by Boyd Zander on 19 Mar 2004, 7:11 p.m.

My recent Ebay bought 32SII has become troublesome. The screen is not visible. I can see by looking at it from an angle that the machine is being turned on and off because there is some slight illumination of the screen. I can see that characters are being input but I cannot see what they are.

Is this a fixable item? Any suggestions? I thought perhaps some of the keys were hit in just the right order to turn the contrast way down to become non-visible.

      
Re: Fixing an HP 32SII
Message #2 Posted by Nelson M. Sicuro (Brazil) on 19 Mar 2004, 7:21 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Boyd Zander

Did you verified the contrast with the key combination ON/[+] or ON/[-] or a reset? The batteries are good?

Good luck!

Nelson

            
It's Fixed!!
Message #3 Posted by Boyd Zander on 19 Mar 2004, 7:50 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Nelson M. Sicuro (Brazil)

I emailed Randy at Fixthatcalc.com and he sent me to the following link with instructions for what turns out to be a common problem. I performed the step and sure enough, my screen is back in action again.

http://fixthatcalc.com/try.htm

Thanks for the suggestion Nelson. I did try C(+) and C(-) and I could see contrast changing but no characters would be visible.


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