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Should the USB Tower have a light?
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Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:51:29 GMT
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Okay, brief history:
I have an RCX 1.0 brick from a RIS 1.0 kit.
Got a new laptop, no Serial port, called lego...they sent me a USB tower.
USB tower needs 2.0 software (which I didn't have and wasn't available on
shop.lego.com), called lego, they sent me RIS 2.0 on CD ($5).
Installed CD, tried to connect, froze. Repeated, froze. Tried every conceivable
configuration, froze.
Dug around online, found the info about Hyper Threading (My laptop's a Pentium 4
3.2 Hyper Threaded) found the driver patch for XP, found a link, downloaded and
installed it.
RIS software now doesn't freeze, but doesn't see the Brick. Says it's not
there.
Bricx doesn't see it either. I set it to automatic and it says it can't find
it. I select USB 1,2,3 and 4.
Okay, now as I'm reading, and I see someone in another post mention a "green
light" on the USB Tower. I look on my USB Tower and I don't see a light at all,
anyplace.
Is my USB tower supposed to have a green light at some point while it's
plugged in? Because mine has no lights at all...nothing...nada...and now I'm
wondering if the tower's broken or not working perhaps...
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Should the USB Tower have a light?
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| There certainly is meant to be a green light. Can you check in your windows device manager - and tell us if you see the tower there. If it is there at all - is it there as "unknown" or with a red mark? Danny (...) (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Should the USB Tower have a light?
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| (...) For free? If so you definitely got a great deal. (...) If you don't need to use the RIS 2.0 software it is possible to use the USB Tower by downloading the free LEGO Mindstorms SDK 2.5 from the LEGO website. (...) The green light only comes on (...) (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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