Ti-83 plus sliver edition

Kelvin742 · Post by **Kelvin742** » Mon 26 Sep, 2005 9:23 pm

My calculator is messed up. It just shows a bunch of lines. What do I do?

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Mon 26 Sep, 2005 9:26 pm

First thing you do is clarify the problem. Seriusly; what'd you do before hand; what *more specificly* is happening, is it frozen, etc.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Mon 26 Sep, 2005 9:33 pm

Pull the batteries (all 4 AAA's) and wait 5 seconds before you reinsert them.

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Mon 26 Sep, 2005 9:39 pm

Here we go with the all-purpose generic problem solver:
Remove all batteries; leave 'em out over night, and put them in.

'Course; Kalan_vod's method will probably work. Just in case though...

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Mon 26 Sep, 2005 9:43 pm

You only need to take one of the AAA's out. It only draws power from the ends; there aren't take-offs in the middle.

Take one AAA and the button cell battery out and leave it overnight. If that doesn't help, then we need more information.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Mon 26 Sep, 2005 9:49 pm

AndySoft wrote:You only need to take one of the AAA's out. It only draws power from the ends; there aren't take-offs in the middle.

Take one AAA and the button cell battery out and leave it overnight. If that doesn't help, then we need more information.

The reason why I suggested to take all four out is in the time of doing so you would/should be fine, if its a simple error/reason.

Post by **Dwedit** » Tue 27 Sep, 2005 12:42 am

Believe it or not, taking out the backup battery actually matters. So if holding ON+CLEAR while pulling and reinserting one battery doesn't work, remove all batteries, including the backup.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Tue 27 Sep, 2005 1:48 am

By "only take one AAA out", I meant you don't have to take all 4. If you'd read my last sentence, I do say to take the backup one out.

Post by **DarkAuron** » Tue 27 Sep, 2005 2:20 am

You're the only person I've heard call it the 'button cell battery', and thus did not notice that. And yes andy, I'm sure that's what it's called, but 99% of people don't call it that.

lecks · Post by **lecks** » Wed 28 Sep, 2005 1:17 am

if you have ti connect, you should connect it to that and go to device explorer and delete all files. you may have downloaded something into your calculator and it caused that to happen. after doing that, do what andy said and it should be fine.

if you get your calculator working, you should create a back-up file on your computer so next time you can just load the backup file on your calc.