Nikon D70 Blinking Green Light of Death

I have a D70 that I haven't used since I got a D200 about two months ago. I
got it out to take as a second camera, but it isn't working. I did some web
searching and found a few references to a similar situation described as the
Blinking Green Light of Death and to a service notice on Nikon's web site.

The symptoms are that the camera won't turn on normally and the green LED on
the back side (called the memory card access lamp in the manual) is blinking
about once per second. If I remove the memory card, the flashing stops but
the camera still does not turn on properly. I tried two different batteries,
freshly charged ad thee different memory cards that I have used before.

Nikon's service bulletin says to send the camera back to them.

I can do that but wonder if there is any other way to reset the camera.
Also, is there something that I did that triggered this?

When I put the camera away, I removed the battery. It sat for about two
months that way.

In article <C0F53962.1A735D%rlhaar@comcast.net>,
Robert Haar <rlhaar DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a D70 that I haven't used since I got a D200 about two months ago. I
> got it out to take as a second camera, but it isn't working. I did some web
> searching and found a few references to a similar situation described as the
> Blinking Green Light of Death and to a service notice on Nikon's web site.
>
> The symptoms are that the camera won't turn on normally and the green LED on
> the back side (called the memory card access lamp in the manual) is blinking
> about once per second. If I remove the memory card, the flashing stops but
> the camera still does not turn on properly. I tried two different batteries,
> freshly charged ad thee different memory cards that I have used before.
>
> Nikon's service bulletin says to send the camera back to them.
>
> I can do that but wonder if there is any other way to reset the camera.
> Also, is there something that I did that triggered this?
>
> When I put the camera away, I removed the battery. It sat for about two
> months that way.

It appears your D70 does not like being neglected, or to play second
fiddle to the D200 :^)


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