ditz@ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Michael R Ditz) (04/03/91)
HELP!!! My stupid HP48sx crashed during a program and gave me an "Attempt to recover memory?" error. So I said YES. Well, this was an hour or more ago, and it's still recovering. No key presses will do anything. What do I do!!! Thanx!!!!!! Mike (ditz@en.ecn.purdue.edu)
sjthomas@cup.portal.com (Stephen J Thomas) (04/04/91)
I hope your 48 has gotten ahold of itself by now, but this brings up
a good point Bill Wickes mentions in HP48 Insights.....
If the 48 has a cardiac arrest resulting in the "Try to Recover Memory"
message, and if you reply [YES], it scans through memory trying to
reconstruct your HOME directory and all its subdirectories (except the
"hidden directory" containing the alarms and key assignments, which are
supposedly always lost -- although I've sometimes found them stuck in
other directories) and port 0. If the 48 finds a library, it assumes
that is the start of port 0 (well, for the first library it finds, anyway).
If you had a library stored in a global variable and the 48 finds it when
attempting to recover memory, it will forget about restoring any more of your
VAR memory, so that the rest will likely be lost.
The moral, try not to keep libraries stored in global variables.
"And now, Mr. Know-it-all"
--- Rocket J Squirrel
Stephen J Thomas sjthomas@cup.portal.com
^- pure coincidence....no relation to our hero Rockyakcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) (04/06/91)
THis is definetely too late, but.. if you calculator gets really stuck,
remove the upper left rubber foot (I don't have to worry about removing
it anymore, I can't find it anymore!!) and insert a paper clip into the
hole (with the R beside it). When you do this, the paperclip shodl go
through the calculator, taking the ROMS with it and causing a system
hardware reset. No, just kidding, it just causes a hardware(?) reset
which is actually often more forgiving than a ON-C. Always keep a
paperclip in your case, I say,
---Falcojcb2181@zeus.tamu.edu (BUSBY, JAMES CHRISTOPHER) (04/08/91)
In article <27fd1d54:2613.2comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>, akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) writes... >THis is definetely too late, but.. if you calculator gets really stuck, >remove the upper left rubber foot (I don't have to worry about removing >it anymore, I can't find it anymore!!) and insert a paper clip into the >hole (with the R beside it). When you do this, the paperclip shodl go >through the calculator, taking the ROMS with it and causing a system >hardware reset. No, just kidding, it just causes a hardware(?) reset >which is actually often more forgiving than a ON-C. Always keep a >paperclip in your case, I say, > ---Falco After removing all the rubber feet from my calculator, what do the other 4 unmarked holes do? If anyting.... =-=-=-=-James Busby JCB2181@venus.tamu.edu Steve Dallas:"God, these People are hurting!" Milo Bloom :"Sliderule Aid!?!?" --Bloom County
jsims@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (J. Robert Sims) (04/08/91)
I think the reset button has been moved; I seem to remember that the reset button was under the upper left foot when the calculator was upside down; My new rev. E calc (3108A) has an R underneath the upper _right_ hand foot! Is my memory failing, or did it move? Rob
rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) (04/12/91)
In comp.sys.handhelds,jcb2181@zeus.tamu.edu (BUSBY, JAMES CHRISTOPHER) wonders: > After removing all the rubber feet from my calculator, what do the other 4 > unmarked holes do? If anyting.... Those are the drainage holes for when your memory overflows.... Regards Ray Depew HP, Ft. Collins, Colorado rrd@hpfitst1.hp.com
akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) (04/12/91)
> After removing all the rubber feet from my calculator, what do the > other 4 unmarked holes do? > James Busby Other 4?! How many feet do you have? But, seriously, only the foot with the R beside it does something, the others are probably nothing (maybe ventilation or something, I don't know.) ---Falco
NORM%IONAACAD.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Norman Walsh) (04/14/91)
> >Those are the drainage holes for when your memory overflows.... > Is that where all that came from. I was wondering what was leaking onto my desk. From now on I'll keep my '48 on a rubber mat. ndw