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What am I clearing on a BB2 w/a with 1810 Clear CF card?
« on: February 18, 2020, 02:56:35 PM »
I have a question...exactly what am I "clearing" when I use the 1810 Clear CF card?

The 2GB memory ram card on the BB2 NXT2  Intel circuit board?
Or the memory disks on the SSD hard drive?
Or both?  :scratch-head_2:
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Re: What am I clearing on a BB2 w/a with 1810 Clear CF card?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2020, 07:25:34 AM »
Yes! Both!
And also the backplane board where everything plugs in has memory on it as well..............

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Re: What am I clearing on a BB2 w/a with 1810 Clear CF card?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2020, 08:51:33 AM »
Thanks ira!

Would it be safe to say that when after one performs a Clear and puts back in the OS & Game cards, what they're really doing is sort of like
 
reinstalling "Windows XP" onto the hard drive and shoving in a game like "Grand Theft Auto"?? :scratch-head_3:

Of course, I'm just trying to make a simple analogy here....lol
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Re: What am I clearing on a BB2 w/a with 1810 Clear CF card?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2020, 08:56:12 AM »
Not quite the same, but basically yes.   

Don't overthink it.  Just enjoy the fun.

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Re: What am I clearing on a BB2 w/a with 1810 Clear CF card?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2020, 09:00:05 AM »
haha...I DO enjoy playing and working on the machines but I also like to know what I'm doing sometimes to explain it kind of, in simpler terms to my friends... :rotfl:
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Re: What am I clearing on a BB2 w/a with 1810 Clear CF card?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2020, 10:56:51 AM »
For the record, you are only clearing NVRAM on the mpu and the EEPROM on the backplane.

When you clear, you are basically "reformatting" the NVRAM and the eeprom to an empty state.  The hard drive does not get erased and the 2GB stick is RAM, which is cleared every time you power off.  When the game boots up with an OS and Game card, the OS will look at NVRAM to get the configuration information, if it has been cleared, it will initiate the game install routines, which entails  formatting the drive, copying the game card's image to the hard drive, write out machine configuration like game and os versions, and then completes the configuration when you are done entering the values during setup.  The NVRAM is kept after power off because the two CR-2032 batteries provide power to the circuit that keeps the information after power is off (thus Non-Volatile Ram).  That's why when you replace the batteries, you have to do a clear since the configuration information gets wiped out.
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Re: What am I clearing on a BB2 w/a with 1810 Clear CF card?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2020, 11:29:00 AM »
Excellent Rick Hunter  :hail: .....you ARE the best you know that?   :rotfl:
You know me too well - in how I like to know how stuff works.  :yes:
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