Denver Research
General Category => ezPower => Topic started by: Lee on October 01, 2011, 02:48:13 PM
-
Well, my Bematech MSR appears to have died. It beeps but imports no data. I tried re-booting the system but that did not help. I have scanned the data from a card into Notepad before but that doesn't work either. I am in the market for a replacement.
In another thread I read "It must read both tracks 1 & 2 (not 3) to be used."
Is this still the case?
Thanks Ronald,
Lee
-
I forgot to mention that I did try cleaning the read head.
Lacking a proper "kit" I folded a paper plate in half and doused it with isopropyl. I applied a swiping action perpendicular to the card-swipe direction - parallel to the gap in the read head.
It didn't appear to help.
Perhaps a software re-installation?
If it has, in fact, died - I'll take two. A replacement and a back-up.
Thanks again.
-
It must read tracks 1 & 2 and not 3. You could try it on a different computer.
-
Thanks, Ronald.
When I unplugged the USB cable for the MSR I did not hear the audible tones I normally hear when disconnecting a "hot" device, so I plugged it back in... and I DID hear the tones associated with the CONNECTION of a device. The MSR now works again.
A lesson to all: rebooting will not resolve a connection problem that requires a disconnection/reconnection of the devices USB cable.