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DS Flash Equipment > M3 Mini - Sometimes "Card not formated" error

#100518 - Harakiri - Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:16 pm

Hi,

i use a M3 Mini with Passme3 - once in a while i get the error that my inserted mini sd is not formated and the ds wont boot - after turning off and on the ds multiple times it works again - this does only happend very rarly (only 3 times so far) - is it an issue with my sd card or with the hardware (m3 adapter?)

#100528 - OOPMan - Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:18 pm

Sometimes the SuperCard does something similar. Claims the SD card isn't inserted properly. Restarting a few times or re-seating the card usually fixes it...
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#100569 - Harakiri - Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:03 pm

so it is mostly a hardware or firmware error "build in" to the system i.e. its not fully bug free yet

#100626 - Xtreme - Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:14 am

That has happened to me.

Possibilities:

Bad contacts
Pust the card out quickly and back in quickly. It might me that the contacts are dirty (micro dirt).

Error in SRAM
It will be fixed with booting it many times again and again.

Error in card
Copy your files out from the card and format it to FAT16/32 and copy them back.
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#100655 - Harakiri - Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:51 am

the SRAM error sounds plausible - however - isnt it not deleted upon poweroff ? or do you probably have to pull out the batteries

#100702 - emphyrian - Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:20 pm

http://www.m3-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2132

this helped me for the contact problem. Not sure if it will end up sorting other problems.

#100715 - HyperHacker - Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:01 am

Harakiri wrote:
the SRAM error sounds plausible - however - isnt it not deleted upon poweroff ? or do you probably have to pull out the batteries

I think M3's SRAM is backed up by battery. Either way, cutting power isn't guaranteed to wipe the data from it. If you have an N64 Gameshark, try playing one game (with or without the Shark) then power off, put in another game and use the GS's VRAM viewer. Chances are you can find graphics from the game you were playing before.
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