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Kinen
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I've been trying for the last few days to get my computer to talk to my Ti-89 Titanium over Ti Connect. It was rather fruitless at first, as I just kept getting frustrated and wasn't really thinking about things... *ahem* But last night I finally realized that the source of the modern man's genius is Google, so to Google did I go. I learned that Win 7 wasn't talking to my calculator because the drivers lack a digital signature, which is a default requirement in Win 7. I learned how to force Windows to accept an unsigned driver and merrily proceeded to go through the F8 loop and connect my calculator.
Well, it still didn't work.
As it was quite late in the night, I was very tired and made a noobie mistake (which, while I'm irritated, I'm not ashamed of as I AM a noobie). I went to tell Windows to uninstall the drivers a few minutes before going through the F8 loop. Normally, the dialog box says something to the effect of "you are about to remove the drivers for this device from your computer." There is also a checkbox that says something like "Uninstall driver software?" I hadn't seen that before, so I clicked it thinking that that little checkbox might have something to do with my problem. No doubt you see where this is going already.
Uninstalling the driver software apparently means: Remove the driver software and files from the device itself so it can't tell the computer how to talk to it.
Thanks for the clarity, Microsoft  .
So now I have a driverless ti-89 titanium. I'm hoping that an OS reinstall will put the drivers back on the calculator, but I don't know that it will. I hope it does... But I'm also hoping that my thus-far fruitless search for a place to download the drivers from the internet will end here and someone will be able to supply me with a copy (since Ti won't)? I can live with a driverless calculator if my computer at least has the drivers.
I've started talking to TI, also, but I get the feeling they'll tell me, "Sorry, you need a new calculator and since YOU f*cked it up, we won't send you a free replacement."
inb4: I tried resetting several times.
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ZagorNBK
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Reinstall TI-Connect.
And if you're using a 64 bit version of Windows, install the patch as well. |
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Kinen
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| Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:51:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm... I wouldn't have thought to reinstall TI Connect. I deleted the calculator drivers from the calculator itself, so I didn't think Connect would have anything to do with it  . Anyway, TI got back to me today and they just had me install the patch to x64. That fixed it ^.^ .
Thanks for the suggestion, Zagor! |
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ZagorNBK
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You can't delete the drivers from the calc itself as the drivers are stored exclusively on the PC.
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Kinen
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| Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:29:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmm... I'd always thought that plug and play hardware had the drivers stored on itself to transfer to any computer it's connected to. I suppose the calculator isn't quite plug and play since it needs TI Connect to be useful, but my device manager called it as such. |
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darkstone knight
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| Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:40:07 pm Post subject: |
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| plug 'n play hardware is just hardware compatiable whit generic drivers included in modern OS's, like usb sticks of wifi cards |
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