Thursday, April 23, 2009

Timex error 745007

I usually am pretty good at crashing computers, even when I'm not trying.  I just have that magic touch.  I've crashed touch displays in museums, Metrocard vending machines, every operating system I've gotten my hands on, etc.  Recently I even managed to crash my watch:

One morning I see that my trusty Timex Expedition watch no longer wanted to display the time.  Instead, as you can see, it only displayed "74 50 07."  To try and save it, I took it apart:

On the flip side of the display I found:
It turned out that pressing that little metal tab which hangs over the giant orange sticker reset the watch (I didn't even need to insert a battery!), and now it's as good as new.
And so, I'm on to the next challenge.  What should I try and crash next?

13 comments:

  1. fyi, Eli is not making this up - he does have the talent to crash anything.

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  2. I have the power to suck the life out of watch batteries. It got so bad my husband gave me an eco-drive watch which works on solar power. So far, so good but if the sun does not come up tomorrow, I am realllllly sorry.

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  3. Should you guys even let Eli play on the internet?

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  4. mb, in light of Seth's comment, if the Internet explodes tomorrow, I'm realllllly sorry...

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  5. I think you should crash a car. The puns alone would make it worthwhile.

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  6. my old timex "reef gear" watch crashed and now that number appears on its screen. i will try your fix! thanks so much for sharing this! :-)

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  7. Hope it works! Let us know what happens.

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  8. Thanks, my Timex had the same error and this fixed it.

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  9. i got the same on my timex last night. will try what you did. thanks.

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  10. It just happen to me too... same watch after 12 year working flawless

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  11. My TIMEX Triathlon had error 746007. This is the only thing close that I could find and tried the fix suggested and it works. Thank you so much for sharing this. You're awesome!!

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  12. Thanks for the tip! My error mess is gone and the old watch lives to tick another day

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  13. Just found this after my old Expedition displayed the same code. Bought it in '99, 3rd battery and 4th wrist band. Was a little sad when the error code popped up seemingly out of nowhere. The reset worked! Nothing like a hard boot to solve most of the worlds problems. ;)
    ...maybe get 20yrs out of this thing yet.

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