Need to factory reset E-Volt 500 Digital Olympus Camera

If your camera does act strange, it is just malfunctioning and you need to contact a service centre.
If there was a bug in the software, all registered users would have had a mail, for a firmware upgrade. I'm afraid there is not such a thing as restore bios.
The deepest restore, is reset settings in the camera to factory settings, but for that, your camera has to work normal.
What settings you can set back and how, you can find in your manual.

In the manual on page 27 you can find what settings and how the settings can be set back to the factory settings.
Because of the icons, you better read the menial than read my descriptions of the icons.
Link to the camera manual for download.

Remove the battery for 15 mins then replace the battery. The camera will go back to the factory defaults, go to the camera's Menu and set the Date & Time.

1. See Olympus SP-800uz user manual page 42 for RESET.

2. A Factory Reset can only be done by removing the battery for about 3 days.
See user manual page 53.

1. press "menu", navigate to the icon of a camera and the number "1"
2. Nav to the option labeled "CUSTOM RESET SETTING" select the option labeled "reset"
3. Press the "OK" button. when prompted, select the option labeled "yes" and press "OK" to confirm your selection.

Cheers!

I had this problem also and I called the Olympus helpdesk. You will need to reset your camera to factory reset and that will solve the issue...

To reset the camera - have the camera in shooting mode - go to Menu - left arrow to reset - press ok - Highlight yes and press ok. This will set the camera back to factory default settings. Hopefully this should solve the issue.

The EVOLT E-500 does not have a live view LCD screen so you can see the image you wish to take a picture of. You must use the viewfinder to take images with this camera and only use the LCD to review the images.

As far as to reset the camera back to factory defaults, you need to turn the camera dial to P go to the Menu and on the camera 1 tab right arrow over and then arrow down to custom reset setting and then hit the right arrow highlight reset and press ok it will show reset yes or no highlight yes and press ok this will reset the camera back to its factory settings

Turn the camera mode dial to P - press Menu button - camera 1 tab is highlighted - right arrow over to Card Setup - down arrow to custom reset setting - right arrow to reset and press Ok - highlight Yes and press Ok. The camera should be back in factory defaults.

As I expected download was useless -- same LIMITED info as the written manual. Camera has gone to-day to factory service in canada Nortown Photo Service . we'll report what they find.