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A very interesting think for us all to be mentioned is WHAT CHIPSET your motherboard uses!! i think that the mmc reader works with intel chipsets but not with via's. At least not in my via based mobo with the latest 4-1.
Papajohn
PS. Yes it is installed,i can boot without the blue screen after a win xp reinstallation(before i was getting a bsod) but system is sth more than unstable while the mmc reader is on. I restarts from time to time if i stress it up a little.
And sth else,in a win98 installation there is a prog that sits in the systray and shows data activity to the mmc. i cant get it to work in xp though.
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Posted: 2002-07-09 18:38:00
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@Papajohn
I'm using a new mobo that has a VIA chipset and an AMD Athlon processor - works fine. Haven't tried Intel but I guess it works if it's working for you
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Posted: 2002-07-10 22:54:00
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Mimzo,
How did you plug in the keyboard in your laptop without the keyboard connector?
I have the same problem!
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Posted: 2002-07-12 08:57:00
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I also get a blue screen of death when i boot my winxp box up with the mmc reader attached. What you have to do is unplug the serial plug (but not the keyboard) when you boot up, then when it's loaded, plug it in and detect it using system-> hardware (I think) in control panel.
Far too much bother for me, I just ended up installing it on my win 98 box which works fine, but VERY slow.
Does anyone else find that the track order that the phone uses is completely random - seems to bear no resemblance to the alpabetical/numeric order of the tracks, or the order they are copied to the reader, (and yes I am selecting 'play all, not random!!).
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Posted: 2002-07-12 12:04:00
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niklash>
I still haven't figured out a workaround for the keyboard connector on my laptop
The only way I can send mp3s to and from the reader is using my desktop - I'm sure there has to be a way...
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Posted: 2002-07-14 09:01:00
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Can anyone emial me the xp driver for my MP3 (HPM-10) so it can work...please help!!
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Posted: 2003-01-27 17:22:00
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Can you guys help me, I downloaded the drivers for the reader from the sony site, installed them, but I cant get XP to detect the reader, HELP PLZ!!!
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Posted: 2003-09-07 16:13:38
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On 2002-07-12 12:04:00, T39andcounting wrote:
Does anyone else find that the track order that the phone uses is completely random - seems to bear no resemblance to the alpabetical/numeric order of the tracks, or the order they are copied to the reader, (and yes I am selecting 'play all, not random!!).
The track order is not random. The phone shows the tracks in the order in which they are saved to the multimedia card. The problem is that when you are copying tracks to the MMC using Windows Explorer, the tracks are not copied to the card in alphabetical order - this time the order really seems to be a random one.
If you want to have the tracks in certain order in the player menu, just copy them to the card one at a time - the first file on the card will be #1, the second #2 and so on.
If you are planning to change the files often, the easiest way to get the files in the order you want to the card is to create a .bat file (use Notepad, save as .txt and change the file extension) and add numbers in front of the MP3 tracks. I am using a bat file with the following lines:
copy c:\hpm10\01*.mp3 f:\
copy c:\hpm10\02*.mp3 f:\
copy c:\hpm10\03*.mp3 f:\
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copy c:\hpm10\99*.mp3 f:\
(substitute c:\hpm10 with the folder in which you have the tracks and f:\ with the drive letter of your MMC reader)
As the phone won't recognize more than 99 tracks on a MMC in any case, this is an universal solution. Just add numbers 01, 02, 03 and so on in front of the file names of the tracks in the order you want them to play and run the bat file to copy the files to the MMC. Just notice that the MMC reader is a slow one and it can take a long time to fill an 128M or 256M card. Remember also that the MMC must be formatted with FAT16 file system as the HPM-10 does not recognize FAT32 or NTFS and you can only fit about 124 or 243 megabytes to the largest cards
I have tried to figure out how to decrease allocation unit size to minimize the waste space but with no success.
I have also found out that HPM-10 reads MP3PRO files too, in addition to the basic MP3 files. By using this format it is possible to achieve higher sound quality with lower bit rates. However, I'm still trying to figure out the FAT16 cluster size problem (it seems that PartitionMagic does not work with removable drives). If anybody knows how to format an 128M or 256M MMC card with smaller clusters (and less wasted space), please let me know.
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Posted: 2003-11-17 02:07:11
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