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   Sounds like a lost ID - if this is your first speed bump, I'd be inclined to re-assign and hope it doesn't happen again.  You may consider upgrading to the latest firmware if you haven't - but if it was me, I'd just let it go.

The ID gets written to the chip on the controller so it doesn't matter which computer writes it there.

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deweycooter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Development Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Location: League City, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 674	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Dec 2009 at 8:56am
	Sounds like a lost ID - if this is your first speed bump, I'd be inclined to re-assign and hope it doesn't happen again. You may consider upgrading to the latest firmware if you haven't - but if it was me, I'd just let it go. The ID gets written to the chip on the controller so it doesn't matter which computer writes it there.
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breakbenj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Pre-Order User Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Location: Georgia Online Status: Offline Posts: 102	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Dec 2009 at 8:22am
	I was not sure where to post this because I haven't had any issues this year until now. My show had been running along smoothly until last night when the 4th controller in my network(of which I only have 1 with 4 controllers) just dropped out. I used the hardware utilty and it only discovered 3 controllers but when I used it to turn all lights on they all came on and when I hit the test button on the 4th controller it worked fine. I'm thinking it has to be the cat5 cable. I'm going to re-asign the id's to the controllers and see if that fixes it. If it fails to fix it the only other thing it could be is the cat5 right? P.S If I use my laptop which uses a different com port to asign the id's and then hook it back up to my desktop would it be a problem? I have the controllers mounted and in order to redo the id's on the desktop I would have to pull them down and I would rather not have to do that. Thanks for any help ya'll might be able to offer
	Jeff