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RE: Laptop Tower Communications - not
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 4 May 2001 18:25:51 GMT
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Tilman Sporkert <{tilman@}nomorespam{webmethods.com}>
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Greg,
of course you tried putting in new batteries first, right? Most of the
tower problems can be resolved by putting in a new battery. The green LED
will still light up even if the battery is too weak to allow proper
communications with the brick. And if the green LED is lit constantly, the
battery will be drained quickly.
I've noticed this with Windows 2000 myself. On my Windows 2000 desktop
system (neither a DELL nor a laptop), the green LED would come on as soon as
I boot up the machine, even if I don't use any of the RCX software. I ended
up unplugging the tower.
Tilman
-----Original Message-----
...
I believe that I recently trashed two IR towers (it is possible that it is
my bricks that are the problem, but the nature of the failures suggest that
it is the towers). I believe that the culprit was a Dell Dimension running
Windows 2000. While trying to figure the problem out, I noticed that towers
plugged into the Dell had their green LED permanently on - the laptop was
attempting to constantly drive them.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Laptop Tower Communications - not
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| new batteries, no green light, Win2K or not -- Richard Clemens clemens@wvwc.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Sporkert" <tilman@webmethods.com> To: "Greg Frazier" <GREGORY.FRAZIER@saic.com>; "Richard Clemens" <clemens@wvwc.edu> Cc: (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Laptop Tower Communications - not
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| Yes, I replaced the batteries on both towers. The fact that both towers are trashed with similar failure modes (although one now doesn't receive at all) and stopped working at approximately the same time suggests an external agent causing the (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Win2K and IR Tower
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| Hi All, I've been following the thread about Win2K leaving the tower green light on all the time. I was wondering about this myself... It seems that my tower has very poor range ever since I used it on my Win2K laptop. Does anyone else have similar (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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