Re: A86: Re: LCD stuff
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Re: A86: Re: LCD stuff
instead of shorting it out pressing on a couple times does the same trick -
wears out the power left over. you only need to do that after a serious
crash - very serious!
Ricky Cobb
arcadesdude@hotmail.com
icq# 41440378
>Indeed, I have a friend whose calc stores enough power in the memory
>supply capacitors to keep the memory good for several hours. Sucks when
>it crashes though. If this ever happens to someone (won't recover, even
>w/ backup removed), I've found that you can short the backup battery
>terminals and the charge will dissipate, so you can get your calc going
>again...
>
>Cassady Roop
>
>Ricky Cobb wrote:
> >
> > to give you a straigt answer yes the calc is 'running' even when it is
>off.
> > the backup batt supplies power to the calc to save your data.
> >
> > try this :
> >
> > take out all the batteries (even backup) and then put them back in again
> > without pressing any buttons at all... the calc should have every thing
> > still there. this is becasue there is still a small amount of power in
>the
> > calc to keep it going so that nothing is lost for a short period of time
> > after the battereis are pulled out, but if you wait too long it all may
>be
> > gone.
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