Re: A92: Severe TI-92 bug
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Re: A92: Severe TI-92 bug
If you keep pressing ON as you reinsert the battery, it'll work. Always worked
for me.
David Ellsworth wrote:
> At 11:51 PM 5/23/98 -0700, Anton Ivanov wrote:
> >> BTW, for those of you who spoke of removing all 5 batteries -- anything
> >> that can be accomplished by that can be much more efficiently and reliably
> >> accomplished by holding down [)] and [(-)] while inserting a battery.
> >
> >Just pull a battery half the way, that is to say, it is sufficient that you
> >disconnect one terminal, press ON and pop it back in. Solves all the
> problems.
> >
> >Why in the world do you need to take all five out? If you really wanted to
> >leave the calc with no power (???), it is sufficient to take out the lithium
> >and one of the AAA's...
>
> That's my whole point. Why in the WORLD would you want to take all five
> batteries out, when there is a simple and reliable method that is
> _guaranteed_ to reset your TI-92?
>
> At this point, however, we diverge. Pressing [ON] does _not_ work. Maybe it
> works for you, but it has NEVER worked for me.
>
> The best way to do it, >>as I said<<, is to hold down [)] and [(-)] while
> inserting a battery.
> I suppose I should describe it the long way:
>
> 1) Remove a battery half-way.
> 2) Hold down the [)] and [(-)] keys. That's the right-paren key and the
> negative key.
> 3) Re-insert the battery.
> 4) Continue to hold down both keys until your TI-92 resets.
>
> I have stated this countless times and STILL the misconception continues.
> Many people still think they need to remove all 5 batteries, press ON, say,
> one or two, maybe a thousand times... and then put all the batteries back
> in and hope to God that the danged TI-92 finally resets itself.
>
> You don't need to do this!!! Simply follow the four steps above, and it'll
> work every time.
>
> (I'm not even going to mention that this is stated clearly in the TI-92
> manual. Nor am I going to mention that I added this to the Fargo
> documentation. I'm just going to hope that it catches on.)
>
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> David Ellsworth
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