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Ed Hansberry
09-01-2004, 02:00 PM
<a href="http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/HandheldiPAQ/us/download/21700.html">http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/HandheldiPAQ/us/download/21700.html</a><br /><br />HP has released a ROM update for specific issues and they did it in the form of an XIP update, which means it won't (or shouldn't) totally erase your device's memory requiring you to reinstall all of your apps! :clap: Currently English and German are available. I expect other languages will follow shortly.<br /><br />Fixes include:<br />• Corrects an issue where the Dual-Slot PC Card Expansion Pack does not initialize after a soft reset when two PCMCIA cards are installed. <br />• Corrects issue where some SDIO cards were not recognized after Suspend/Resume or soft reset. <br />• Corrects issue where the handheld did not enter Suspend mode if select SDIO cards were present. <br />• Corrects issue where some SDIO cards continued to draw power while in Suspend mode.<br /><br />Note that you <i><b>must</b></i> have the full ROM update <a href="http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/HandheldiPAQ/us/download/20669.html">SP27674</a> on your device to use this XIP update. If you don't, install that first, which will require a hard reset, then get this update.

that_kid
09-01-2004, 03:34 PM
I wonder why they didn't include the latest wlan driver in this update. It's great to see the use of XIP upgrades though.

buckyg
09-01-2004, 03:51 PM
Yes, I wish they would have put the WLAN and some of the other updates in, too. Would help free up a little memory and make things easier in case of a hard-reset or you want to rebuild it from scratch. Oh, well...

I do also appreciate that they haven't totally abandoned support of "older" machines.

Jerry Raia
09-02-2004, 04:17 PM
Has anyone tried this yet? Does it wipe out data?

buckyg
09-02-2004, 04:38 PM
I've installed it, no problems. Since it's an XIP update, it did not wipe everything out. I have not noticed any differences so far...

This update does give you a decent time estimate, too, which is nice. Beats wondering if anything is happening

Jerry Raia
09-02-2004, 04:43 PM
OK I just installed it. Worked fine for me also. No data loss. :)