TIB: Re: Help!! TI-89 problems

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TIB: Re: Help!! TI-89 problems


    I'm not sure this will help...but is there a reset ALL memory, including
archived data? There is on the TI-83+.  If there is one, then use it.  (I
one time had to reset ALL my calc's memory, including archive).

----- Original Message -----
From: Noah R Deneau <noahd@juno.com>
To: <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>; <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 10:36 PM
Subject: TIB: Help!! TI-89 problems


>
> Here's my story:
> I've had a TI-89 with HW1 and AMS 1.00 for over a year now, and I love
> it.  I play a lot of games on it and thus crash it often.  Several months
> ago I installed a version of Archive Utility by DBA (I think it was
> version 1.00) and that solved my crash problems--I just kept a copy of
> Plusshell and my libs and games in archive memory.  I could always
> restore everything after a crash.
> I was calculating happily until today, when I decided to put some new
> games on my calculator, among them Asteroids, Sonic Misadventures, Kwirk,
> TopSkate, TI-Chess...  The calculator crashed a few times, no big deal, I
> just reset and moved on.  BUT, I soon realized that some of my archived
> programs had become corrupted!  For example, Bigdyna which used to be
> ~40k ASM file, now shows up as a 1 byte EXPR!  A couple other files, ASM
> and STR files, are also now 1 byte EXPR files.  I can't delete them
> (because they're archived) and I can't unarchive them because I get a
> Memory error (even though I have 161kB free RAM).  If I try to view their
> contents (2nd-F6) I get an Internal Error.
> Resetting does nothing.  Resetting holding down ")" and "(-)" does
> nothing.  Taking out the 4 AA batteries and the backup battery and
> letting it sit for several minutes does nothing.  All the archived files
> are still there!
>
> I haven't tried much but other than the corrupt data things seem to work
> okay--I can even play Tetris.
> What should I do?  Any ideas/help/solutions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> -Noah Deneau
> noahd@juno.com
>
>
>
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