My TI84 plus silver edition is stuck with a 0 and the blinking cursor. I tried cleaning out the I/O and every other inch of it with compressed air, as well as clearing the RAM, and the old remove batteries then hold ON before replacing them trick. Nothing is working... I also went to see if my OS was corrupted but my cp couldn't see my calculator anymore... Any suggestions? (besides get a new one which I'm debating)

SOURCE: TI-83 Plus Silver Edition 1.14

That means that you know your calc crashed. This can be caused by taking out the batteries durring running time, happened just randomly. Well nothing to fear just press clear and it should go away but if it stays on that screen you have problems and is best to try some of these methods. Take out all the bateries and press and hold the on button for 30 seconds. Put the batteries back in and it should have reset. Warning you should archive everything incase this happens. To archive go to 2nd mem and hit enter to put a astrick next to the app (meaning archived)

SOURCE: TI-84 Plus Calculator will not turn on, says ram is cleared

Thats because the OS is corrupt. Follow the manual and reload the OS, try the 2.43 OS

SOURCE: ti-83 plus silver edition. calc won't turn on.

Hello,
Well, if screen shows the RAM CLEARED message, that means your calculator is working. Just press the [CLEAR] key, message will be erased and you are ready to crunch numbers.

Hope it helps.

SOURCE: RAM CLEARED?

Hello,
The most likely reason is that the backup battery is drained. Change the backup battery. When you get the Ram Cleared message, just press [CLEAR] to erase the message and start using the calculator.
Hope it helps.

SOURCE: Calculator Wont Turn On

Having gone over a month with no response, I assume this is no longer a problem.