Re: A85: RAM FAIL
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Re: A85: RAM FAIL
Yes, I experienced this the first time about 3 days ago, when trying to use
Usgard. Note to any ROM 8.0 people out there, get the new Usgard 1.1
package and before running usgard BE SURE to transfer the PATCHROM.85S with
the ZIP to your calculator, or you will meet Mr. Ram Fail.
At 02:49 PM 9/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>yeah, I got that a week ago for the first time. hehehe. I was also using
>Usgard but in defence of this new lovely shell, other people have
>experienced this WAY BEFORE Usgard was ever dreamed up. Also, on my calc
>the RAM FAIL message sat there for a sec or two, then the calc reset
>itself. How nice. See even TI built a calc. better then a mac. When a mac
>crashes you have to click "ok" to restart, same in Win95, but TI obviously
>made a much wiser system =) Hehe. anyway, any non-buggy program will not
>have this RAM FAIL problem in Usgard, ZShell, etc. This message only
>occurs when something REALLY wrong occurs in the asm program. There are,
>as any ASM programmer knows, MANY reasons as to why exactly this occured.
>
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>On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Michael Pearce wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else ever gotten this error message when programming their
>> calculator? I got this lovely error after exiting Usgard from the
>> program i was making. Big letters on a clear screen, "RAM FAIL". The
>> calculator, while displaying this, had the busy indicator moving. So
>> i took out the batteries, held the ON key for about 5 seconds, put
>> them back in and when i turned the calculator back on, the message was
>> still there. I then pressed ON and the calculator froze. so i
>> removed the batteries, pressed ON, put the batteries back in, but the
>> calc wouldn't turn on. So i then took out the back-up and a AAA, and
>> the calculator still didn't turn on. Then i took out the batteries
>> out another time, and it turned on just fine. Anyone know what this
>> error message means? where it is located in ROM, etc.?
>>
>> -mike
>>
>> BTW, i have ROM 9.0
>>
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> Biya! =)
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