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Go button died

So last night in the middle of Act II, the Go button on my rental Ion died.  It's an ancient artefact of a console. I found save files from 2009.

The console Go button stopped responding to input. The back button stopped responding to input.  The external keyboard spacebar stopped responding to input.

but when the keyboard was locked, pressing the spacebar resulted in the Alt+G to unlock message. At the same moment as all of this, the configuration of my DSs on workspace 3 all shrank in size. (Weird, right?)

Exit to shell nor rebooting cold had any affect. Go button remains dead.

EOS 2.8.2

I made a macro to goto Q next, so I managed.... but I have nothing to remedy the failure. In the end, it's a rental, I'll let the shop deal with serious issues. but if I can remedy this, it'd make the 3 shows left more tolerable.

Thanks!

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    I'll just mention that the behaviour of GO doing nothing is what happens if the two faders on an Ion are in the bottom not top position as they are the manual time overrides. (I posted the following a couple of years back and it might be what happen on your Ion)

    If like me you never use them (and so dont even notice them) and someone puts them to the bottom position just before the show, they can give you a heart attack, you hit go on curtain up and everything remains dark, you frantically hit goto cue 1 and it works, you hit go again and nothing happens. Been there ....

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    I'll just mention that the behaviour of GO doing nothing is what happens if the two faders on an Ion are in the bottom not top position as they are the manual time overrides. (I posted the following a couple of years back and it might be what happen on your Ion)

    If like me you never use them (and so dont even notice them) and someone puts them to the bottom position just before the show, they can give you a heart attack, you hit go on curtain up and everything remains dark, you frantically hit goto cue 1 and it works, you hit go again and nothing happens. Been there ....

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