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killer rom Message #1 Posted by db(martinez,california) on 9 Feb 2002, 8:00 p.m. i seem to have a finance rom that crashes 41's. has this happened to anyone else?

Alien Rom? Message #2 Posted by Marx Pio on 9 Feb 2002, 9:25 p.m., in response to message #1 by db(martinez,california) DB, I have 2 41CV (1 half and 1 fullnut) Have the financial decisions pac, stress analysis pac and Stat & Math pac and a card reader. I used them in both 41 with all sort of combinations and nothing abnormal happened. It sound strange you blaming the financial pac. I'm getting afraid of it, so I kept my financial rom away from my 41. Could be vintage viruses? ;) Cheers, Marx Pio

Re: Alien Rom? Message #3 Posted by db(martinez,california) on 9 Feb 2002, 11:01 p.m., in response to message #2 by Marx Pio this seems to be the cause of my 41's locking up and being in permanent (until drained of power) memory lost. maybe it is dirty. i think i'll give the rom a bath in carbon tet or something equally nasty then blow it out with compressed air. it dosn't cause a monster to pop out of my calculators chest but it is not good for my peace of mind to have them ignore all the keys. besides, i don't really need a finance rom. money comes in, it disapears. no need for a program there.

Re: Alien Rom? Message #4 Posted by CJ on 10 Feb 2002, 7:51 a.m., in response to message #3 by db(martinez,california) I have had the same problem with all kinds of rams, roms and the IL module. To me atleast it seems like dirty contacts. I pull the battery out of the machine and then slide the ram, rom , IL module in and out about 10 times. This so far has fixed the problem. I would have to go with your conclusion that they are dirty but I haven't figured out the best way to clean the contacts(solution) without damaging them. So I haven't I just use my previous example to fix the problem. Does anybody know the best way to clean the machine contacts and module contacts? Christopher

Re: Alien Rom? Message #5 Posted by Stephan Hirse on 10 Feb 2002, 5:28 p.m., in response to message #4 by CJ In general for cleaning contacts I use a hard rubber (eraser), as it has been used on ink drawings before there were CAD systems and a soft brush to remove the resulting dust.

Re: killer rom Message #6 Posted by glynn on 9 Feb 2002, 11:45 p.m., in response to message #1 by db(martinez,california) could that be the famous En-Rom? ;-)

Re: killer rom Message #7 Posted by Marx Pio on 10 Feb 2002, 6:32 a.m., in response to message #6 by glynn Enron, huh well... Dealing with problems and bad financial decisions I bet you are right ;-)

Re: killer rom (?????) Message #8 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 10 Feb 2002, 9:06 a.m., in response to message #6 by glynn Hi; I've been out for a few days (running, running, running...). Didi I lose something? What is this En-Rom about? Sorry if this is as obvious as the question is to be disregarded... Thanks.

Re: killer rom (?????) Message #9 Posted by Evgen Fedorenko on 10 Feb 2002, 4:15 p.m., in response to message #8 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) En-ROM <-> Enron ;)

Re: killer rom (?????) Message #10 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 10 Feb 2002, 8:06 p.m., in response to message #9 by Evgen Fedorenko HI, Evgen; thanks. I'm still in doubt... Why the killer? Why the En- prefix? Can you help clearing? Thanks and sorry for the dumb questions...

Re: killer rom (?????) Message #11 Posted by Yani on 11 Feb 2002, 4:06 a.m., in response to message #10 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) Have a look at. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/enron/index.html

Re: killer rom (?????) Message #12 Posted by Marx Pio(Brasil) on 11 Feb 2002, 5:29 p.m., in response to message #10 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) Luiz, It was just a kidding with the name Enrom. There was a problem with a db's rom and glynn made joke with the words. Luiz, É apenas uma brincadeira, db falou de uma rom com problemas e surgiu uma tal "en" rom(Enron), aquela megafalência nos USA Sacou? Abraços Marx Pio

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