Power on 50g

[matalog]

Should I have to hold down the ON key for at least 1 second to power the 50g on?

I have a 49g and it comes on immediately upon pressing the ON button. My 50g seems to take 2 seconds before it reacts to me pressing the ON button.

Is there a FLAG or setting somewhere that might change that length of time between pressing ON and realising it?

Sorry about so many questions recently! Thanks for any help.

[cdmackay]

I believe one possible cause of long switch-on times is if you have an SD card installed that is formatted as FAT32. The preferred format for SD cards in the 50g is FAT16, and I believe that's required if you wish to perform an SD-based firmware upgrade or reflash.

Another cause might be something slow is assigned to the STARTUP var?

[cruff]

My 50g has a 2 GB FAT 32 card installed and it takes approximately 3 seconds after pressing the on button for it to display anything.

[burkhard]

I think the other issue can be the size of that card. I forget the hard limit (it's been covered here many times before), but bigger = slower.
Smaller sizes can be tough to find nowadays, but you don't want the biggest you can fit.

[rprosperi]

Any card larger than 2GB should not be used. Technically, larger cards can and do work, but the Filer display literally does not have enough columns to display the storage size, so you end with totally misleading data sizes.

[BINUBALL]

I'm using 50g with 1GB SD card. It takes about 1s to boot.
Maybe this card is formatted as FAT16.

[Stevetuc]

(01-16-2022 03:05 AM)cruff Wrote:  My 50g has a 2 GB FAT 32 card installed and it takes approximately 3 seconds after pressing the on button for it to display anything.

I have a similar 2gb card and I have partitioned it as 256kb fat16 and the remainder as a fat32 partition(or could use ntfs).
The HP50G sees only the 1st fat16 partition and boots quickly. Windows sees both partitions and the 2nd partition can serve as a convenient backup and storage space for hp50g files.