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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 (...) (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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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)
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(...) Well, my serial tower has a green light inside the dark faceplate which comes on ...at computer bootup, at shutdown, and whenever it is communicating with the RCX. Jerry (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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(...) I was just now looking at the SDK for the first time. Just to further elaborate on what John wrote, the "LEGO USB Tower Interface Reference.pdf" says: The user will see the green indicator LED switched on when the Tower: 1. Is powered and has (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Dirk, John, Thanks so much for the reply. I had changed some info and needed to wait before posting again, so I had a chance to check a couple of things... Okay, this was weird. I had powered up my laptop. I went to plug in the USB Tower, and (...) (20 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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