Top 20 Olympus VN-2100PC Digital Voice Recorder - Page 7 Questions & Answers

go through device manager and update driver on your device

go through device manager and update driver for the device

I had this same problem with my vn 4100 olympus digital recorder. I learn from someone else on this site that you could just hold the display/menu buttton and the stop button at the same time for about 2-3 seconds. the FOR display comes on and all you have to do is wait a couple of minutes and your recorder is working again. Just keep in mind that all previous recorder will no long be there. they will be deleted.

 and i have like this problem?

Hello evrybody,
I had the same problem but i fix it.
This is the solution :
1- When the "ERR" message is shown, press Disp/Menu Buton for Two seconds and at the same time "Stop" Buton.
2- The "FOR" Message is shown
3- wait for some minutes
That's all
PS : All the recrded messages will be deleted

Accessed Olympus site and downloaded new driver update to clear problem.
Now working perfectly

here is the manual :

http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_support_product.asp?id=1270

a bit late, only just saw this question. my understanding is that clearing up background noise is a specialist task. if you look at a sound wave it's really difficult to discern the main wave from additional noise. and although its possible to edit out the background of a photograph, that gets a lot trickier with a video if you follow my metaphor. the best most of us can do is open the file in a sound app (i'm on a mac so i use quicktime for this) and find the menu option to raise the volume. Now its absolutely possible that someone has come up with some new software that i haven't heard of yet of course. however good practice is; make sure you record at a good volume to start with- either do an audio test and listen back or set the levels with a headphone.

check out this link, i had exactly the same problem but this blogger has a working patch for the vn-2100pc and vista - works fine now!!

http://blog.ironguard.net/2007/06/olympus-vn-2100pc-and-windows-vista.html

email me [email protected], if you need help still.

You need to go to the Olympus US site and download the update for vista even though your running Windows XP.

here is the software

http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/DigitalWavePlayer.zip
http://olympusamerica.com/files/DWPUP4EN.zip
http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/DigitalWavePlayerUpdate214.zip

buy another voice recorder, my dad has had me scouraging the net for a vista driver, the drivers dont work so it looks like its the good old bin for the recorder. dont get me wrong the recording quality is excellent, just olympus have really screwed 1000's of people over this time and i dont think many of those will trust olympus with anything other than a standard film camera.
they should stick to what they know and keep out of the digital genre.

nuff said.

you could always trade it in at a Cash trading shop and get some money for another make if that helps !

sorry

I downloaded a manual - previous version lost in a crash - and sorted it out with that
It wasn't the timer but the settings on "alarm playback function"

Hi guys
I had the same problem with Windows vista and here is how I got my VN-4100PC to work.

1. Download and install digital wave player file from: http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/digitalwaveplayer.zip
2. Vista updates can be found on: http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_support_downloads.asp?id=1291&os=w

This do the trick!

K

the recorder does have two mic settings, hi and low. the high is great for lectures and the low is for personal dictation

You need to loacte the files on the unit and get them to your hard drive via the transfer function. Once on your machine use any cd (like Nero) creating program to back them up to a black cd. You have to make sure your computer has a cd burner.

maybe, you got those wav. files copy controlled. check out the relevant preferences from the voice recorder menus. if this solution doesn't work, simply convert the files into mp3, then convert them into wav. again. I hope this could help..

I am no expert at all- but the following worked for me: i have copied and pasted the file on the desktop and then opened it with the windows media player and through there burned it to a cd.. hope this works for you too..

I would set index marks if you need to get to a specific part. I am not sure if that's what you are trying to do. (not sure about changing folders - you always need to be in the folder where your files are) Check video manual on Olympus 4100PC at www.HandBookLive.com under Electronics category. There are chapters on setting index marks (scroll to the end of the video chapters)

Question edited for a lot more clarity. Question moved from Olympus Camera category. Olympus seems to think it doesn't exist. https://cs.olympus-imaging.jp/en/support/imsg/vtrek/download/manual/ But I see it on Amazon, unless they are Chinese clone copies. The model numbering of 'S-number', doesn't match apart from the 'W-20'. Write to Olympus and ask. https://www.google.com/search?q=olympus+s924+manual ..