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mugged99
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Hi, im new here but perhaps you could help me with a seemingly impossible problem i've had.
So ive had this calculator (ti-83+) for 4 years now and up till now it was great. So i turned it on the first time in months and i noticed something was wrong with 1 line of vertical pixels - they're gone! And over the next few days more and more lines of vertical pixels kept dissapearing - now i have around 4-5 missing lines across the screen and its awful annoying since it blocks out some of the answers.
so basically, what can i do? is there a screen reset or something?
Thanks!
I've asked many people and no one knows exactly what's wrong. Additional details i could add is that I did have some white gunk form inside the battery compartment, but i cleaned that up yesterday...took the whole calc apart and cleaned everything
still have same problem
so any comments please post!
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brandonw
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Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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White gunk inside the battery compartment is probably a battery acid leak. Not good, but it still powers on, so I guess it's okay.
When LCDs die, they tend to do that. I would double-check the ribbon cable attached to the LCD to see if you damaged it, or somehow it's not right. That can cause columns to go wonky. I have an old 81 like that.
Aside from that, there's not much that can be done. |
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