Board Of Education Question

firealarmfreak

Hey I just baugt the discovery kit with the board of education, and it all workes fine but recently pin 6 and pin 11 ranomdly stopped working. i cant get anything to work on these pins. The rest are fine. I did nothing differnet with those pins then the other.

Is there a way of resetting my Board to factoryd defualts besides the reset switch and or anybody know what i can do to fix this and what could have caused it?

Thanks.

Chris.

Mike Green

The reset button (or just turning off the power) does as much of a reset as anything else.· It doesn't clear the EEPROM program memory, but downloading a new program using the Stamp Editor will overwrite the existing program in the EEPROM.

The most common cause of an I/O pin not working is damage from some kind of short circuit or excess voltage or current.· There have been some cases of faulty solder connections on the Stamp module or Board of Education, but these are very rare and the module and development boards are tested before shipping.· You could call Parallax Tech Support on Monday.· They can arrange for the return of the module or board.· If it looks like a defect, they'll replace it.· If it looks like you accidently damaged it, they can repair it for part of the cost.
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firealarmfreak

i called parallax today cuz pin 7 suddenly stoped too. They think its the module, they doubt its the board so i shipped them the module and they said they would replace it for half cost or free if i did not damage it accidently but thanks anyways.