40D went dark...

I just sold my trusty 40D a month ago.

Today the buyer told me that nothing is working on the cam!
He replaced the small battery but no change.

When the lid for the CF is open and you close it, there should be a blinking red light for a short while. There is none.
No error codes shows up.

Have anyone experienced this?
Otherwise he will send it to be serviced tomorrow.

Since I don't have seen the camera there is not much else I can tell.
But I guess there is nothing in the display either.

I think I have read something like this before, but I am not able to find it.

So any suggestions are highly appreciated.

He's charged the main battery right???

There are switches on both the battery door and the CF card door that turn the camera off when the doors are opened. It's possible one of these has failed.

hpulley wrote in post #10993776
He's charged the main battery right???

That was the first thing that I asked him

JWright wrote in post #10993911
There are switches on both the battery door and the CF card door that turn the camera off when the doors are opened. It's possible one of these has failed.

Yes, told him to check those also.
So I guess I will hear tomorrow if it worked.

Turns out he used an old CF card.
One of the connection holes were blocked....
One of the pin in the CF dock got bent.
So he will try to bend it back.

So tomorrow he will have to send it in since he will probably break it.

ArcticShooter wrote in post #10998754
Turns out he used an old CF card.
One of the connection holes were blocked....
One of the pin in the CF dock got bent.
So he will try to bend it back.

So tomorrow he will have to send it in since he will probably break it.

suspect even if he manages to straighten the bent pin, there's likely either a fuse blown, or damage to one of the circuitboards. Either way, it'll be a repair center fix.

He got a price quota: US$ 850....
I bought this camera new from B&H for 900 something.
So it is very expensive here in Norway
He is not going to repair it!

Well it is not your fault so I hope he didn't demand anything from you.
I hope he learned a lesson not to use old crappy cards though it is amazing that the repair would cost 850 bucks :O
then again Norway is known for outrageously high prices I have heard all about it when I used to live not far from the Norwegian border and you guys drove across the border to Sweden to buy "cheap" stuff

FuturamaJSP wrote in post #11517255
Well it is not your fault so I hope he didn't demand anything from you.
I hope he learned a lesson not to use old crappy cards though it is amazing that the repair would cost 850 bucks :O
then again Norway is known for outrageously high prices I have heard all about it when I used to live not far from the Norwegian border and you guys drove across the border to Sweden to buy "cheap" stuff

No, he didn't ask anything from me. He understood that he broke it.
Yeah it is expensive here. On most electronics it's the VAT of 25% that makes the diff.
But everything else is at higher cost. But we have it good here so I can't complain too much.

ArcticShooter wrote in post #11517652
No, he didn't ask anything from me. He understood that he broke it.
Yeah it is expensive here. On most electronics it's the VAT of 25% that makes the diff.
But everything else is at higher cost. But we have it good here so I can't complain too much.

haha yeah actually you guys seem to be doing whole a lot better since a lot of Swedes have moved to Norway just to find jobs there
Do you guys have to pay customs and/or VAT if you buy stuff from EU countries?

FuturamaJSP wrote in post #11518291
haha yeah actually you guys seem to be doing whole a lot better since a lot of Swedes have moved to Norway just to find jobs there
Do you guys have to pay customs and/or VAT if you buy stuff from EU countries?

Yes we have to pay VAT on everything over NOK 200 (US$33)
We have among the best economy world wide. No debt. We didn't notice the problems other countries have had in the past years. So I guess we can't complain

buy it back cheap and check out http://web.ukonline.co​.uk/alan.marlow/index.​htm

bdp23 wrote in post #11520550
buy it back cheap and check out http://web.ukonline.co​.uk/alan.marlow/index.​htm

Wow great repair prices; I have saved this link for possible future needs; thanks for sharing!

I also just found this one: http://www.darntoothys​am.com …r-Service/EOS-SLR-Series/

I like to see these 3rd party repairers who have a nice website, for a number of reasons. It means they're surviving on out-of-warranty work and probably good service. Their opinions about the products are not as biased as the OEM. They list a number of specific repairs aside from the expected cosmetic and cracked LCDs -- like a DC-DC converter repair and a lens contacts replacement on the Xti/400D (my last camera) which points to these issues being somewhat common.

bdp23 wrote in post #11520550
buy it back cheap and check out http://web.ukonline.co​.uk/alan.marlow/index.​htm

This looks very interesting. I might offer him some money for the camera

bdp23 wrote in post #11520617
I also just found this one: http://www.darntoothys​am.com …r-Service/EOS-SLR-Series/

I like to see these 3rd party repairers who have a nice website, for a number of reasons. It means they're surviving on out-of-warranty work and probably good service. Their opinions about the products are not as biased as the OEM. They list a number of specific repairs aside from the expected cosmetic and cracked LCDs -- like a DC-DC converter repair and a lens contacts replacement on the Xti/400D (my last camera) which points to these issues being somewhat common.

Thank you for the link. Will be helpful