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Re: Should the USB Tower have a light?
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Date: 
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:30:45 GMT
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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
-=-
http://orionrobots.co.uk

Krusty wrote:

> 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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  Should the USB Tower have a light?
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)  

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