This is so newbie that I am afraid to ask, but I am really stuck. I have a brand new SD990IS and I can't get to the point of displaying the firmware version number. I have done the following.
1) Start with the 32MB card provided with the camera.
2) Put it in a multi-size chip reader connected to the USB port on my laptop running Windows XP
3) Reformat it by right clicking on the "removeable disk" in Windows.
4) create file named ver.req (all lower case) by right clicking in the root directory, selecting new text file and changing the name to ver.req
5) put the card in the camera
6) power on using the "play" button (camera says "no image")
7) hold down funct set and, while holding it down press disp (no change in the display)
8) turn camera off by pressing "play" and turn on using power button (now in shooting mode)
9) take a picture, the picture appears on the screen
10) power down
11) power up by pusing the display mode (the picture I last took comes up on the screen)
12) repeat step 7 (no change in the display)
13) return the chip to the card reader. Confirm that ver.req is really there (zero length)
14) change its name to vers.req
15) repeat steps 5-7 (no change in display)
16) repeat steps 1-15 with a 4Gb card (no difference)
17) reformat the 4GB card in FAT16 using CardTricks
18) repeat steps 1-15 (no change)
19) use CardTricks to download ixus980_sd990-100e-0.9.8-788-full_BETA.zip and install on the card
20) lock the card
21) turn on the camera -- camera appears to be dead, as if it had no power
22) remove the card
23) turn on the camera (still dead)
24) remove and reinstalll the battery
25) turn on the camera (comes up, says No card)
26) reformat the 4GB card
27) camera again operates normally
Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
