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Subject: 
Dead RCX
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Date: 
Thu, 17 May 2001 01:23:58 GMT
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Has anyone had an RCX just plain die on them?

- Brand new - used manybe 30min total
- Fresh batteries
- Nothing hooked up to it at the time
- Did it's usual beep on startup as my son switched it on and off to
listen to the sound

I assumed he had stopped pushing buttons when it stopped making
sounds, but when I tried it a few minutes later, it was completely
dead.

It's an RCX 2.0, serial no. 555639 incase anyone is aware of a bad
batch.

Has this happened to anyone?

Matthias Jetleb
VA3-MWJ



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  Re: Dead RCX
 
Completely dead? no response of any kind when you push the ON/OFF button? I ask because if battery power is off for too long, the firmware evaporates and the RCX is pretty non -responsive. But the LCD is not blank. If this is the case, download the (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: Dead RCX
 
(...) Hi Matthias, normally I'd call LEGO service. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the power connection is lost. That shouldn't happen to an unopened RCX, but who knows. The power connection from the batteries to the mainboard is by (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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