| Author | Comment |
mikeh034
Probe
Posted: 3 Sep 2005
16:27 GMT
Total Posts: 12 | ill just be doing something on my calc, a game or prgram or something, and then all of a sudden "RAM CLEARED" comes up and it deletes all this stuff. wh does that happen and is there a way to prevenmt it from happening? |
mikeh034
Probe
Posted: 3 Sep 2005
16:37 GMT
Total Posts: 12 | another thing, what does "garbage collecting" mean? |
alex10819
Wraith
Posted: 3 Sep 2005
17:04 GMT
Total Posts: 507 | just randomly? it shouldnt do it randomly. you have to do something to cause a RAM reset to occur... are you running a game you downloaded from the internet?
Garbage collecting is when the calc is cleaning junk out, usually happens when a program is using RAM and/or ROM extensively, or when a user decides it is needed.
also, instead of double posting, we have a button here called the "Edit" button... if you click it, you can modify your post.
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Andy
Administrator
Posted: 3 Sep 2005
18:03 GMT
Total Posts: 939 | Garbage Collection is the process of actually clearing unused archive memory so it can be used again. You should ALWAYS answer yes, otherwise you will be unable to archive anything until you do. |
JumptheGun
Dragoon
Posted: 3 Sep 2005
18:32 GMT
Total Posts: 56 | yea garbage collecting is good |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 3 Sep 2005
21:07 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | More specifically, when you unarchive a variable and move it to the RAM, the lazy calculator copies the variable from the archive to the RAM, but never clears out the previously used archive memory. Garbage collecting clears out all that "garbage" space. |
TI Freak
Probe
Posted: 4 Sep 2005
09:14 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | I had that problem, I got rid of all the apps on my calc and the problem went away... |
mikeh034
Probe
Posted: 4 Sep 2005
10:23 GMT
Total Posts: 12 | well it hasent happend recently, the RAM Cleared, but when it happens again ill say what it is doing |
