Camera will not start at all!! Nikon D70s

[ChowChi-Ching]

Anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? My Nikon D70s is only a few months old and on the 8th of January, I was at a birthday party, I was trying to figure out where I wanted to position myself and figure out my lighting. I picked my spot and had my camera on, (I had used my camera frequently earlier that day), Well, I wanted to play with the external flash lighting and so, I went to take a pictre and nothing happened. I looked at the top screen and it seemed fine, so I tried again...Nothing. So I went to turn it off and the screen stayed exactly the same. It basically froze up. I tried a couple more time of turning it on and off, top screen stayed on. So, I took the battery out and the screen went off, I put it bac in and the camera would not go back on at all. I played with it a little bit trying to think of anything else. Nothing happened. So I ended up missing pictures of a pretty special birthday party. After we got home, I went through my manual and saw nothing that matched what had happened. I have tried different memory cards, recharging the battery, pressing the "reset" buton on the bottom of the camera. Nothing has worked. There is nothing on the screen at all. I am calling Nikon tomorrow but I was wondering if anyone else has had this happen, or if any one else had any other ideas for me to try. Luckily, I am still under the warranty, but it still sucks anyway.
Thanks for any help.

[Franglais]

Anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? My Nikon D70s is only a few months old and on the 8th of January, I was at a birthday party, I was trying to figure out where I wanted to position myself and figure out my lighting. I picked my spot and had my camera on, (I had used my camera frequently earlier that day), Well, I wanted to play with the external flash lighting and so, I went to take a pictre and nothing happened. I looked at the top screen and it seemed fine, so I tried again...Nothing. So I went to turn it off and the screen stayed exactly the same. It basically froze up. I tried a couple more time of turning it on and off, top screen stayed on. So, I took the battery out and the screen went off, I put it bac in and the camera would not go back on at all. I played with it a little bit trying to think of anything else. Nothing happened. So I ended up missing pictures of a pretty special birthday party. After we got home, I went through my manual and saw nothing that matched what had happened. I have tried different memory cards, recharging the battery, pressing the "reset" buton on the bottom of the camera. Nothing has worked. There is nothing on the screen at all. I am calling Nikon tomorrow but I was wondering if anyone else has had this happen, or if any one else had any other ideas for me to try. Luckily, I am still under the warranty, but it still sucks anyway.
Thanks for any help.

What do you mean by "I wanted to play with the external flash lighting"? Are you using an external strobe triggered by a PC cable?

One of my strobes is distinctly "live". It blew the cpu of my T70 years ago (twice). Since then I only use it via a slave trigger.

It sounds like the cpu of your D70 is blown, anyway, or a memory failure. Send it back to Nikon.

Charles

[ChowChi-Ching]

I hadn't actually used the flash when it happened. I have used this flash before. I had no problems. It is a external flash that came with my camera kit. Here is the kit I bought(it shows the flash).........

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nikon-D70S-SLR-3...temZ7580498282

[Peter_AUS]

I wonder if the flash sync voltage is too high for the safe sync voltage of the camera and that might have caused a problem inside the camera.

Sounds like you have a faulty D70 as Charles mentions.

[another view]

I doubt it's a sync voltage problem. Nikon told me that their cameras can handle 250v, and I'd guess that this flash isn't anywhere near that. This was before the D200 came out, so it's best to check with Nikon to be sure - but it sounds like it's due for a trip back for service.

Before you do that, take the battery out and leave it out for at least 1/2 hour. Put in a new freshly-charged one and see if this fixes it. It has worked in the past...

[ChowChi-Ching]

Thanks, I will try that. I am honestly at a complete loss as exactly what happened. But my husband is going to call today or tomorrow and find out exactly where to send it if this doesn't work. So frustrating. We have some special days coming up that I really would have liked to have this camera. I have my Konica Minolta Dimage A2 but for me, it doesn't compare to the Nikon. Hopeful;ly, they can fix it and get it back to me quickly!
Thanks for everyones help. I really appreciate it.