I was fooling around with the built-in assembler on my 49g+, and ran this program:
!ASM
LDR R0,[R1]
@It reset and the memory was cleared, but it was suddenly very slow. I did a soft reset (ON+F3) to see if that would help, but now the screen is blank. I tried leaving the batteries (including the memory backup battery) out overnight, and that didn't work. I also tried following the instructions at
http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/pc/rom/ under "If it fails:" in case the firmware was erased, but no menu appeared.
More than a month later, I tried turning it on, and it appeared to work fine. I was able to perform several soft resets. Eventually, however (the next day) it started getting very slow again, and now the screen is blank again. What should I do?
To reproduce what I did (at your own risk!):
256 ATTACH "!ASM
LDR R0,[R1]
@" ASM EVAL