My TI-84+SE is not working, please help!?

Ok, first of all I'm pretty good with electronics, and this is just one thing that stumps me. My calculator ran out of batteries during a garbage collect, and even after I recharged the batteries, it was frozen on garbage collecting. So after looking online i was forced to take out the battery, hold the DEL key and put it back in, erasing all memory on the calculator as I understand it...and i pulled up TI Connect and downloaded the 2.55MP OS from the TI website, connected the calc via USB, and started the OS restore. The computer starts the transfer (I tried it both in Windows 7 x64 and Windows XP x32) and remains at 0% for about 30sec before it pulls up an error saying "The current transfer failed. A retry may be successful (8C010001)" I've retried many times, never gets past 0%. The calculator has to be reset every time by pulling out the battery and holding DEL, and it comes up "Waiting... Please install operating system now." The computer detects it fine in device manager, TI connect can't get the status but does detect it as a TI-84+SE. When i start the transfer it says "Receiving... Operating System 0%" and there it stays, even after I cancel the transfer on the computer and even unplug it from the computer, the only way to turn it off is to pull out the battery. (I even tried to let it sit there on that screen to see what happened, it completely drained the batteries and died) Just plugging in the batteries without holding down DEL makes it where nothing happens when i push the ON button, if I get it to the install OS screen and let it sit or push the ON button it says "ERROR! Press any key to turn unit off. Then turn unit back on." And if i do push any button (the ON key does nothing for some reason) it turns off, and if i try to push the ON button to start it again, I can tell the screen receives power, but no cursor no text nothing appears on it. And i have to pull out a battery to get it to turn off again. I'm totally stumped...i looked all over the internet and nobody seems to have the same problem...am I just sitting here with a brick or is there something else i should try? Any help would be great :) thanks!