I can't really help you but... (was Re: My TI-86 Died. Please
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I can't really help you but... (was Re: My TI-86 Died. Please help!)
PowerFlame wrote in message <19981030140318.12012.00001391@ng144.aol.com>...
>Anyway, I was playing around with my Calculator earlier today. The menu
program
>I have for my games is called AShell. I selected "Pwd" or something like
that
>from the menu within AShell...anyway, it was a link that popped up this
thing
>at the bottom of the screen that says "Password". I didn't understand what
it
>was, and I tried to get out of it but it didn't escape.
<SCRIMP>
>I was stuck in the
>password screen.
>
>Finally, I got impatient, and pulled out the batteries. Then, I put them
back
>in about 10 seconds later, and it wouldn't turn on. I tried a number of
tests
>on it: I took out all the batteries and put them back in, the 20-second On
>button test...I tried adjusting the contrast too, but to no avail. The
>calculator would not turn on.
<BIFF>
<ZORK>
<BOOF>
<...enough!>
This is my experience with this...problem:
I didn't even know that I had typed in a password the first time time I
did it. So I too had to take out the batteries.
It has happened several times...and one time I took out the batteries
and put them back in and it *didn't* erase my memory and I *wasn't* back at
the password screen...somehow the calculator took me back to the homescreen
with everything still there!
Anyway, the point is that weird things can happen when this password
feature is enabled and you take out your batteries...
My suggestion? Try new batteries.
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