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Tower Problem (solved?)
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:11:49 GMT
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Original-From:
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Laurentino Martins <lau@*saynotospam*mail.telepac.pt>
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This topic was already spoken some time ago, but unfortunately I did not kept those messages so I'm starting a new thread.
If I remember correctly someone complained that it's tower never turned off, even with the computer off.
At the time I even played a bit with the subject and even suggested it was great feature and was nothing to complain about! :-)
Well, the destiny played some trick on me and that seems to be happening to me also with my CyberMaster tower. It's the second time I find the tower turned on after turning off the computer. And I didn't even used the CyberMaster for at least a couple of weeks!
Nothing turns the tower off, only removing the battery I can shut it off.
After some investigation I noticed that my modem is using COM2 and that's not good because the tower is using it also! (this happened because I had to reinstall my PC from scratch a few days ago).
The tower is receiving all commands the computer sends to the modem and the result is that the tower LED blinks every time I use the modem.
It seems some of those commands crash (?) the tower and it the result is a tower that cannot be powered off.
For hackers:
After this experience I think that after all it might be possible to control the tower "alive" time with the right commands sent to the COM port, and without a hardware hack. I'd love to be proved right :-)
(sorry the English)
Laurentino Martins
[ mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt ]
[ http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/ ]
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