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Old 16th June 2012   #1
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ilok wont work (Flashing blue light)

Hey guys,

I was hoping maybe some of you who have experience with iloks might be able to help me with this.

I've had this iLok for several months now which had been working fine until today where, on plugging it in, the blue light began to continually flash and couldn't be recognised by the computer, my iLok account or any of my programs that use licenses from it. I've tried all of the ports on my computer and its all the same; the light is just constantly blinking on and off really fast.

If ever I would plug my midi keyboard or the ilok into my computer when it was turned off, they would both light up as though they were still getting power. Strangely, I plugged the ilok into the computer when it was turned off and the light stayed blue like it was working fine. But then if I turned the computer on, it would just resort to flashing again.
Im thinking this might mean its not actually broken, or could it?
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Some of us? *laugh*

iLok is notorious for breaking. You can expect to replace them now and then. I had the worst experience recently...

iLok took the cake today.

You say about it not being actually broken - you'll read the same thing in my post above.
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I'm sorry to say but this seems it is broken. It happens relatively frequently ... unfortunately.
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Well, I left my ilok for a few hours and plugged it in last night. Bizarrely, it was working fine. Today however, I plugged it in and low and behold, back to the flashing blue light.
Whats even more annoying about this is I rarely ever unplugged it from my computer, and even then never took it anywhere so they're is absolutely no reason why something should go wrong with it.




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Some of us? *laugh*

iLok is notorious for breaking. You can expect to replace them now and then. I had the worst experience recently...

iLok took the cake today.

You say about it not being actually broken - you'll read the same thing in my post above.
Wow. that is ridiculous. Hope you got it all sorted in the end.

I was thinking that if mine now decides to be tempermental and only work occassionally I could just get a new one and use that transfer licenses feature to move them over to the new one. But after reading all that, im not sure I will.
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I have been having the same problem actually that started two days ago, i have a mix to finish asap not happy
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