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Re: Please help (Follow up to my earlier post)
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:09:03 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Rob Hendrix wrote:
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> > I have a Toshiba Laptop with a USB 2.0 and I bought a USB Tower at Bricklink
> > because my Laptop doesn't have a serial output (I think that they do not make
> > laptops with it anymore). At my first try my computer didn't lock up, but I
> > couldn't use the fast firmware download and BrickCC and NQC couldn't transmit
> > some programs to my RCX (It could transmit some tiny programs, but it gave an
> > error when I tried to transmit the 9_rotation.nqc example program from brickCC).
> > I solved the problem going to the LEGO USB Tower at the control panel,
> > swithing to the Advanced Tab and setting the Read Timeout (1st Byte) to 300
> > msec.
> > Now, everything seems to work fine. I just would like to understand why this
> > change fixes my problem?
> >
> > Hope that this helps,
> >
> > Ildefonso.
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> I'd be interested in seing if your laptop was a p series (P15, P25, etc).
> There is another person on the lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab who has had the
> same problems as myself. I own a P15, and she owns a P25. I finally
> installed Windows 2000 Pro and have had no other issues. Now everything
> including the USB tower works flawlessly.
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> Rob
My laptop is a Satellite 2455 series. Maybe laptops of this serie don't crash
but produces the strange behaviour that I had with the USB Tower. I'd like to
know if someone else had the same problems that I had. Anyway, it's good to know
that you have solved your problem.
play well,
Ildefonso.
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