Re: A83: Calling All Great Programers Part IV!! Or anyone else that owns

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Re: A83: Calling All Great Programers Part IV!! Or anyone else that owns an 83+


Yeah try holding Clear when inserting the battery, though never anything
that bad has happened to me!!
Only once I wanted to send an app to the calc, and I accidentally sent the
wrong file which was an app which I was messing around with, and instead of
telling me that it needed a certificate, the calc reset by itself, and gave
me the please send calc software screen, and I had to resend it... I used
the Graphlink.
But then one day, my link port started not working, just like that, from one
time to the next, I couldn't even send a single file, trying different thing
I noticed that the problem was a hardware one !! I brought the calc back to
the shop, and they didn't even open it saying that it was broken physically,
and they couldn't do anything about it... so I had to open my calc, and
resolder some broken solder pieces, at that point my link port was working
correctly again... then one day by accident my brother pulled the Graphlink
out by accident, and bent the thing, and my link port still works although
sometimes I have to hold the cable sideways for it to work well....

So all this comes down to: your link problem could come from software, but
don't exclude the fact it could come from hardware...

-Nicolas Gilles


>
> Hold down clear and on while putting in the battery.  This clears all ram
> and archive.
>
>
> >From: Gabriel Hughes <ghughes@clipper.jbhs.wi.k12.md.us>
> >Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
> >To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
> >Subject: A83: Calling All Great Programers Part IV!! Or anyone else that
> >owns an 83+
> >Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:43:40 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >
> >Hello friends.  It is I again with another question but this one is not
so
> >simple.  As you well know I own an 83+ and was happy with it until last
> >thurs.  My friend wanted to play bomberman with me, the one that uses
> >Mirage.  I had been working on some programs for my calc class and didn't
> >have Mirage at the time(I got sick of it messing up when I graphed
> >stuff).  He went and sent me the game and the App Var.  When he realized
> >his mistake he went and linked us back up but my calc wouldn't go into
> >recieving mode.  After about 5 trials we decided to give up but(Here's
the
> >problem) my calc locked up.  Now usually when this happens first thing I
> >do is take out the link cord and see what's up.  When I took out the link
> >cord my calc was fine(or so I thought).  I went to the memory/delete
> >screen which is usually where I fisrt see problems, like lists taking up
> >6k or weird stuff like that.  I noticed that all of the values seemed
> >normal and hit 2nd quit to exit.  When I did this the run indicator came
> >on and then the screen went blank.  Then three lines showed up on my calc
> >screen and disappeared slowly one pixel at a time.  This had happened
> >before when I messed something up in calcsys or when I was running a bad
> >assembly program.  I went and took out a battery like I usually do to
> >reset the Ram after a crash like this but it didn't reset the RAM it gave
> >me the waiting please install calculator software now message.  So I ask
> >my friend to borrow his calc to reload the software but my calc won't
> >accept the software.  So when I get home I go to my computer and try and
> >load the software from it but that doesn't work either.  I took out all
of
> >the batteries in hopes that it would fix the problem but It didn't.  I
> >haven't had a chance to call TI yet because I haven't been home when they
> >were open and I was wondering did any of you guys know how to help
> >me.  Thanks alot to all who reply.
> >
> >-Direct G-
> >
> >
>
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