Nikon D700 will not work!

[leica M2 fan]

For a few days now all I get on the screen from my D700 is CHR.
Whatever that is, my question here is does anyone know a repair person
in the Bay Area that could check this out for me? I would be agreeable
to someone out of the area also.

 

[Keith]

Tony .... after doing a google search I read that this may be the memory card at fault. Try another card if you have one and see if it helps. 🙂

 

[leica M2 fan]

Thanks, I tried three others and they all gave the same CHR.
It could be the pins are bent. I.m still trying to find someone
locally that fix it for me. Thanks for your help, it would have
been an easy fix.lol

 

[Jack Conrad]

Have you tried cleaning the battery contacts and pins with a dampened in alcohol q-tip?

 

[sevo]

Nikon service once told me it is the error message associated with SD card drive issues - missing contact (at least on the D70). Could be bent, damaged at electrical level or merely dirty. The first two might require having it serviced, for the latter, have a go at it with a SD card slot cleaner (essentially a SD card shaped mildly abrasive brush).

 

[leica M2 fan]

I had cleaned the battery contacts to no avail. It sure looks like it needs to be checked by a tech.
Would like to have one near by in San Francisco or the Bay Area, any suggestions?

 

[sevo]

Not the battery contacts, but those in the SD card slot! The error message points there...

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Isn't there a Samy's in your neck of the woods? Usually these big stores also have someone who can work things on digital cameras. Did you check them out?

I may be wrong too...

Best of luck!

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Google says there's a Samy's on Bryant St. in SF.

 

[rybolt]

The D700 uses CF cards. Not SD cards. The CHR message is most likely caused by bent pins in the card chamber. If you look at it closely you might see the bent pin. There's a slight chance that you may be able to straighten it out with a very thin screwdriver blade and a very light touch. I don't see how you could hurt it any more than it is now.
FYI- when inserting ANY CF card insert the card part way and then gently push from the very center on the card's edge. There are a bunch of very small pins that fit in very small holes and if you push from one edge you ca bend the card just enough to bend a pin.

 

[leica M2 fan]

On the advice of several people I have made an appointment tomorrow to take in
the D700 to Advance Camera in San Francisco. He will check it out and give an
estimate. Thanks everyone for the help and in case it doesn't work out I will try
Samy's on Bryant St. Thanks again.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Tony, keep us in the loop about your D700. I have one too, but mine has never given me any grief (knock on wood). However, I must be ready to face some kind of surprise any day...

Gotta play with the ole chump! 🙂 Check on it right now! 😉

 

[Range-rover]

I had the same problem with my D2XS camera and was able to fix the bent pin
myself. You need lot's of light, small tools and a bit of patience.

 

[Ken Ford]

On the advice of several people I have made an appointment tomorrow to take in
the D700 to Advance Camera in San Francisco. He will check it out and give an
estimate. Thanks everyone for the help and in case it doesn't work out I will try
Samy's on Bryant St. Thanks again.

Tony, how did this turn out?

 

[Vics]

I have a dslr that takes CF cards, so I solved this by getting a huge card and just leaving it in the slot. I off-load the files using the usb cable.

 

[leica M2 fan]

Ken, I have not sent it to Nikon yet. I keep saying this week I'll get to it but
something else crops up. But I will do it and report back to the forum. Thanks
for your interest.

 

[blumoon]

I know this post is over 1 year ago.
I just got a Nikon D70 and it kept giving me the FOR or CHA error message. I reinstalled the 2.0 firmware update and so far it seems to be working fine.
Does anyone know what the largest capacity card would be after the firmware update?

 

[sevo]

Does anyone know what the largest capacity card would be after the firmware update?

128GB. Other than SD, the CF standard had generous hardware limits right from the start. And even the initial D70 could read and write to FAT32 file systems. But back when it was new and I owned one, it could only format FAT16 - so you had to format cards > 2GB in a computer, as formatting in the camera would shrink the card capacity to 2GB.

A firmware update may later have added formatting to FAT32 in the camera itself, but I don't know about that.