Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dj1l+ From: dj1l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Demian A. Johnston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Help my 48 is going beserk!! Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 90 13:32:13 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 40 Okay, I need the help of all you c.s.h netlanders here. I've had my 48sx rev C since June and have loved it however, a couple of weeks ago, while playing Syzygy My calculator froze and locked with random pixels turned on all over the pict (screen) none of the normal stack or menu line was visible. I tried ON-C. I pulled the batteries. NOTHING fixed it!!! Ready for this: THE HIDDEN RESET BUTTON DIDN'T FIX IT!!!!!! So I pulled the batteries and put it aside for a couple of days so I could bring it home for thanksgiving for service. I would have to content myself with my 32s. Anyway The day I was to return home for thanksgiving I popped the batteries into the calculator and HOLY LORD the calculator worked fine. The memory was cleared but I didn't worry.... My last physics test was today and I spent last night studying for it (can you guess whats coming up here.) So I taking a break and my room-mate picked up my calculator and turned it on and when he tried to go to my { HOME CHIP } directory the calculator just freezed. I played with the batteries, the reset button and everything else. I've been able to get to some of the rom tests (ON -E) and it seems to go okay. But when I try the Key board test ON-D, then E I start and by the time I hit TAN the test kicked out A key didn't fail the test just stopped and the calculator was locked again... What the hell is going on with my calculator. This raises another serious question: Did I have a virus? Scary thought... Currently my batteries are pulled and the calculator is sitting in my drawer. I figure I will have to have to call service. But I don't have me original receipt.... Any suggestions comments etc..... Thanks in advance for your help! Demian J - dj1l@andrew.cmu.edu