Try removing the card

All should work well without a CF card. If not - there'll some kind of issue.
If still a problem, try removing both sets of batteries for a few hours to let everything reset.

Matt

What's the actual internal drive?
As a worst case scenario, it may be possible to exchange the drive controller board to rescue yours...

...but I'd get a second opinion first. Very likely you fried the USB-SATA controller board. Possible the drive remains intact.

I use several Seagate GoFlex drives which have an unpluggable chunk at the end (so you can upgrade the main drive to eSATA, Firewire etc). It's actually a very useful USB2-SATA interface and have used it many times for just rescuing and formatting laptop drives

HTH!
Matt

It's an interesting point - what the camera should do if it encounters a file already on the card that clashes with the numbering it expects to use... I suspect there's some logic going on inside!

At a guess, I suspect that if there's more than a 5000 count difference between what's on the card and what the camera was going to use that it then takes the card numbering Obviously, if you shoot a few SD cards and put them back in the camera it knows you are looking at 'old' images. More than 5000 difference and perhaps it takes the card numbering to save the problem of overwriting (giving 5000 leeway).

Just a hunch

I'd try it... but I like the current numbering of my K5

Matt

Here's a quick image from Nymans taking with the 'hacked' extension tubes:



https://www.pentaxuser.com/photo/user-77/explosion--35407

Actually, quite nice really! They are a bank of 8x8 LEDs. Very bright - but with only about 2 or 3 foot 'throw'. Ideal for macro lighting. You can switch them down to 6x6 LEDs. Of course, you'll need AA NiMH/Eneloops as it draws almost 1Amp!
Too bright to look directly into. I paid £15 for mine - seems perfectly adequate (but don't expect to light a room with it )

HTH!
Matt

Okay dokay

Here's what I did with my Teleplus tubes:
* Carefully removed the front plate
* Inserted a thin strip of kitchen foil between the Digital pin and its spring
* Put the foil over the adjacent screw hole
* Replaced front plate (watch out for the alignment of all those pins!)

I have done this to the 36mm and 20mm tubes. Works like a charm with the DA*50-135 and DA*16-50. The camera has no clue about the lens - so it works in manual focus mode (with focus confirmation though). All works exactly as required for macro work

In fact, it's the cat's whiskers


(That's 135mm, 36+20mm tubes, resize and sharpen only)

For information, the digital pin is shown on Bojidar's page.

Hope this helps!
Matt

FWIW, I have a lovely Pentax FA 24-90 that's currently for sale
Very compact and light, beautiful bokeh, contrast, and sharpness
Matt

I bought a K10D with a similar error for not much- thinking it wouldn't be that hard to fix. Turned out to be dry joints on the inter-board connector between the motherboard and SD card board.

Trouble was that in taking the two boards apart two tracks got broken on the PCB because there wasn't enough mechanical strength left with the bad joints not holding. Now I've got a K10D in pieces, but broken and without much chance of a fix

It may well be something similar on yours
Matt

Yesterday I saw a K100D + 18-55 kit lens for £149 in the Cash Convertors in Portslade (Boundary Road).

Pondered about it myself... but in the end bought a mint Nikon (!) Coolpix S1 pocket digicam for £10

Might be helpful!
Matt

Bumpity-bump

Note that the DA55-300 is the 'full' version with a metal mount, Pentax hood, and quick shift focus