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abrad41
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Hardware Sometimes Not Connecting
« on: 24 February 2010, 09:17:39 » Quote Modify Remove
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Hi
Just recently when I start RB for the first time, I am getting "Hardware Checking" (See Below) down in the left hand corner, It stays like this until I restart RB, then seems to be aright.
This morning I had to restart RB about 6 times before it would show "Hardware Connected", and a couple of time's instead of showing "Hardware Checking", it was showing "Hardware Not Connected" (See Below).
Any thoughts from anyone including Airnav would be good, is this a case of a hardware going to fail shortly.
Cheers
Andy
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I have been doing some testing on this subject. As I said before I use a Cat 5 type extender with about 10m of Cat 5 cable, running from in my conservetory, up a outside wall, through the outside wall into the loft.
1 - I checked all of the connection from the back of my computer right up to the RB box in the loft, everything seemed good and I still had the problem.
2 - At the RB box end, I changed the usb lead, still no difference, still taking me 3 - 4 starts to get RB working.
This made me think it must be my outside Cat 5 cable
3 - So I brought the RB down to my main computer and tried the Cat 5 extender with a normal ethernet cable, things were still the same
4 - So then straight from the RB into the usb port on the back of my computer, still the same, taking 3 - 4 times to start.
This had me confused, so I thought the only thing left was to try v3.13.
And would you believe it - it work fine everytime - so this leads me to believe the problem is within v4.03.
Any comments would good and AirNav what is your view on this.
Andy