Peter, glad that helped and glad it is working again. Rex is a bit funny in that a cold reboot of the laptop does not reset rex. It needs a power off cycle.
Steve On Thursday, April 16, 2026, Peter Noeth <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks, that worked. First I "cold booted", then turned the T102 off > for 10 seconds, then powered back on and started BASIC and issued CALL > 63012 and execution went back to the Menu and REXMGR was loaded. > > I will have to put the "Power cycle" step in my REX Quick Ref Guide. In > case this happens again. > > I have the "ROM II + Cleauseu" Option ROM installed as my primary and > just doing a "cold boot" and CALL 63012 was getting me to the Menu with the > "Cleauseu" prompt in the lower right corner as it usually does when I > enable it. > > I was working on understanding some code I got from one of the Club 100 > libraries, when my "Label line" became corrupted and the printer was just > responding with jibbrish. I expected RAM corruption so decided to cold > boot, knowing I would have to restart REX. > > Thanks again, > PeterN > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:23:16 -0400 >> From: Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [M100] Need REX Help! >> Message-ID: >> <CAMCMnV5rGmUcifP1qZjFsrcEfG0MpWJr8_-jnV6VFnQf7_b_+g@mail. >> gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> It sounds like you power cycled the laptop, but in case you haven't please >> do that and retry Call 63012. >> >> Steve >> >> >> On Thursday, April 16, 2026, Peter Noeth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I have been using the original REX for years now with no problem, >> until >> > tonight. >> > >> > I was working on a program on my T102 (I usually develop on the >> > machine), and discovered I was not getting proper response from the >> > printer. I tried resetting, but that did not help. So I performed a cold >> > boot, knowing I would have to restart REX, but when I made the CALL >> 63012 >> > to restart, all I get is the option ROM I have installed into REX. REX >> is >> > not creating the REXMGR file so I cannot reload any RAM images. >> > >> > I think that I was supposed to "unhook" REX first, but it has been >> years >> > since I installed it and didn't think about it. >> > >> > What do I need to do to get the REX working again? I do not have any >> > programming environment for REX, so I can't re-flash it or anything like >> > that. >> > >> > It must store its internal operating flags in flash, because shutting >> > off the T102 memory battery did not help. >> > >> > >> > Regards, >> > PeterN >> > >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: <http://lists.bitchin100.com/private.cgi/m100-bitchin100. >> com/attachments/20260416/64c68690/attachment-0001.htm> >> >>
