kyma•tweaky: Know BlueLightDoesNotComeOn

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I just received my Capybara and the blue LED does not light up. Everything else is working fine.

If everything else is functioning properly and you can hear the fan turning when you switch on the power, the most likely cause is that the Capybara received rough handling by UPS, causing the LED connector to get knocked loose. Please verify as follows:

Unscrew the 7 screws on the top of the Capybara.

Unscrew the 3 screws on the upper part of the rear of the Capybara (holding down the cover)

Lift up the cover from the rear of the Capybara and slide the cover off

There is a cable that connects the light to the Capybara motherboard. It has two wires (white and black). It should be plugged into a 2 pin connector labelled LED1. The connector should have the white wire closest to the "+" marker on the motherboard.

If this cable is not connected, please plug it in. (Another possibility is that the LED may have been shaken loose from the lens front panel. If so, you can push it back into the front panel.)

While you have the top cover off, please check to make certain that each of the slot jumpers is firmly plugged into the slots of the motherboard. (These are small boards that are put into unused expansion card slots.) Since everything is working well, I doubt that any of these are loose, but the loose LED connector indicates that the package must have been shaken up a lot during shipping, so it couldn't hurt to just double check that the jumpers are still well seated in the slots.

-- CarlaScaletti - 10 Oct 2005

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TopicClassification:	Solved
BriefDescription?:	Blue light does not come on. Everything else OK.
OperatingSystem:	Mac OS9, Mac OSX, Win 98, Win ME, Win XP, Win 2000
LapOrDesk?:
HostProcessor?:	PowerPC? G5, PowerPC? G4, PowerPC? G3, Pentium 4, Pentium 3, Pentium 2, Athlon, Celeron, Other
ClockSpeedInMHz?:	N/A
RAMInMB?:	0-127, 128-255, 256-511, 512-1023, 1024-2047, 2048+
CapyInterface?:	Flame
KymaVersion?:	KymaX?
CapybaraVersion?:	Capy320
ExpansionCards?:	None, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
VirtualMemory?:	On
MonitorSize?:	12, 15, 17, 21, >23
NumberMonitors?:	1, 2, 3, >3
NumberColors?:	8 bit (256), 16 bit (thousands), 24 bit (millions), 32 bit (true color)
GraphicsCard?:
OtherHardware?:
OtherSoftware?:

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