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Odd error message: "CHA"
Posted:
Tue May 17, 2005 12:48 pmby Nnnnsic
I just reloaded my freshly charged battery and my 1gb CF card only to get a message on the top LCD with the follow... err... message... "CHA".
Checking the back LCD, it told me that the card couldn't be used.
So I turned it off, pulled the card out, put it back in, turned it on, and all was well.
Anyone know what this message was and / or what it means?
Posted:
Tue May 17, 2005 12:51 pmby Glen
Error in chinese? No idea, glad it works now though
Posted:
Tue May 17, 2005 12:52 pmby Nnnnsic
Yes, I'm glad it's fixed too.
I'm just curious as to what it is.
Posted:
Tue May 17, 2005 1:03 pmby MattC
Leigh,
I also had one of those a couple of weeks back after inserting the card. Switched the cam off, reinserted card and all was good.
It had me wondering if there was a small amount of oxidisation on the pins or some other small problem that prevented proper electrical contact.
I have not had a reoccurence of the problem.
Cheers
Matt
Posted:
Tue May 17, 2005 1:03 pmby sirhc55
Check page 200 of the D70 manual
Posted:
Tue May 17, 2005 1:05 pmby Onyx
CHA is CF card related. Maybe you wanna jam that card in the wrong way a few times to clear out any blockages... or not.
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Tue May 17, 2005 1:45 pmby gleff
Back in the days I was using my microdrive, I got that error message.. never worked again.. I had to buy a new card.. that's when I changed to a sandisk flash.
CHA message
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Tue May 17, 2005 3:20 pmby Rags
Hope you formatted the card before taking pics. I am told this message appears if the formatting is not done.. Had to junk a card myself, a while back. Luckily it was 256 mb
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Tue May 17, 2005 5:41 pmby SoCal Steve
I got that message a few months back with a Viking card. I was ready to toss it out because nothing was working to read it or format it. Then I tried Lexar's CF rescue software (Photo Mechanic, I think) and it reformatted it and brought it back to life. Go figure?!
Re: CHA message
Posted:
Tue May 17, 2005 6:15 pmby birddog114
Rags wrote:Hope you formatted the card before taking pics. I am told this message appears if the formatting is not done.. Had to junk a card myself, a while back. Luckily it was 256 mb
Who's going to use the 256Mb card on the D70 nowaday? Long gone by the wind.
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Tue May 17, 2005 7:52 pmby Killakoala
I get this every now and then with my Astone CF card. Re-inserting and reformatting usually fixes it, but pisses me off.
Then again i get all sorts of errors appearing on the camera but i can attribute them all to me pushing the poor lil' D70 beyond it's limits. It's not fast enough at times. But i'll get over it.
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Tue May 17, 2005 8:50 pmby Nnnnsic
I have a feeling that you and I have the same type of card, Steve, so I'll attribute it down to a problem in various batches of the card.