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In the last couple of weeks I have had two infuriating RowPro hiccups.

Once when doing a steady row of 30 minutes with badocter it stalled and shot me lengths down on him.

Last night in the Pete Plan 4 x 2,000 it once stopped for 30 seconds in the last 500m and then in the last piece it stopped altogether for about a minute after 1,200m. This was so offputting I stopped - I was pretty much at the limit and I find anything distracting knocks me off my rhythm. I was somewhat annoyed.

I am up to date with RowPro. What happens is that RP thinks I have stopped rowing even though I am not.

Has anyone seen this odd freezing problem, does anyone have any suggestions?

P.S. going to cross-post this on the C2 forums...
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I've not had any problems at all and I use Row Pro for all my rows including PP stuff. It may be worth trying a new cable from PM to Computer. (assuming you've not already tried that)
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New cable, new port on the PC, re-flashed firmware, processor at 60%. NO DICE...
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That session had a whole bunch get washed out...seems like stability is getting worse again... Maybe tonight was not a problem at your end...
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I doubt that actually - I get freezes when rowing alone...
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You guys aren't really talking me into buying RowPro.
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It works fine for me :)
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Kirby, I'm with Den. I never have any problems with it, if you have a chance to try it out you really should give it a go. Fair enough there were 13 starters and only 7 finishers, but you get no indication as to if these were system failures or body failure :wink:

It does seem Thomas has a system problem but I'm convinced it's the exception to the rule. It is such a great motivator, where else would I be able to pull a 10K PB and be 5 minutes behind the winner :lol: (Andrew Mudge 34:48)
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I'm in the Kingy & Den school too.
I've only ever had one problem, and that was before the last upgrade. Worked superbly since then.
I do have a permanent LAN connection via cable rather than wireless, I'm of the opinion that makes a difference.
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It's been pretty solid for me too although they will always be a bug to too in the machine.

Last night was the first time I've raced on line with V2.302 and the 16 lanes made it impossible for me to "see" the other boats and their pace data very well as they are so small on the laptop screen (which admittedly is about 4 feet away). By the time I've managed to read the info, my own pace has dropped off as I'm not concentrating on my form as much

Maybe I could persuade Mrs Plummy to allow me to buy a big flat screen TV to output the info to - [-o< (it was nice knowing you)

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kingy2 wrote:It does seem Thomas has a system problem but I'm convinced it's the exception to the rule. It is such a great motivator, where else would I be able to pull a 10K PB and be 5 minutes behind the winner :lol: (Andrew Mudge 34:48)
That is my feeling too, but I cannot rule out it being the new version - installing it coincided with my drop in motivation and I have not rowed half as much. Only now as I get going and row much more am I more interested in the RP readouts!
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