A83: Re: Crashing Trouble

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: A83: Re: Crashing Trouble
From: Hyperbyte <central@hyperfield.com>
Date: 18 Oct 2000 00:49:24 -0700
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org

In my case, I let the TI-83+ cool down for about 24 hrs, and nothing worked, I didn't use the clear method, so... 
(it seems reading manuals would be a good thing to do after all)

But back to your case, what rom version were you using? 
Did you have black dots appearing too?

I understand that you archived some programs, the calc crashed,  you lost all of your archived programs, but not your flash app, you did a self-test, and boom, all archived programs were back.

This leads me to the conclusion that the App names are read from each app in Archive space each time the apps button is pressed, hence the long time to wait for all apps to appear if you have many apps. But the archived apps have VAT entries (I knew that already), but when this vat is erased, there is a way to retrieve the archived progs entries. Perhaps there is a shadow VAT for archived programs in flash. But that shadow VAT would in that case not be read until a clean reset is made. Which appearently was not the case in your case.

Anybody more ideas (or corrections to my assumtions)?

Peter Martijn

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Chaos, just like windows, is just an alternative form of logic.

On Tue, 17 October 2000, Mike K wrote:

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> I had a similar problem, but when i turned my ti83+ on it did an apd (automatic power down) in like two seconds.  I fixed this by taking out all the batteries (including the little lithium
> one),  waiting a few hours, then putting them back in, turning my calc on and pressing clear rapidly.  At first it appeared that all my prgms were gone except one app (mirage 0s) but when I
> did the self test (mode alpha s) a few times, the last time i did it, i let the #'s count to like 40.  But any ways after the self test all my prgms (that i had archived) were back!
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