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    Quote Originally Posted by Talligen View Post
    Mr Spock, thank you for the email.

    KM7155, IP conflict...good question. The copier has a static IP and it's not in any DHCP ranges. I'm not getting any IP address conflict alerts either, so I don't think that's the problem. Still, our users have the capability of installing and running a rogue DHCP server, but I'm sure I would still get an IP conflict alert. I'll keep an eye out for that.

    Stirton.M, I'd love to put the copier on one of those devices. I suggested it to management and they're reviewing it for inclusion in next years budget.

    So, after working with the sales rep and service managers, we made some progress. Last week, my repair tech said that he ordered a new HDD, NVRam, and a control board. My gut feeling says it's the HDD but I think any one of those components may be the culprit. Interestingly, ever since I put a monitor on the internal website (every 15 minutes a server checks to see if the copier's website is up), I've only had 2 lockups...the last one occuring last Thursday. That's 5 straight days (over a weekend) without a lockup.

    Like I said, I'm an IT guy, so this question may not be valid. With computers, especially laptops, you can configure power save timers (shuts off after 1 - 30 minutes of inactivity) for things like the screen and the hard drive. Are those components individually configurable on a copier? I'm wondering if the hdd is going into sleep mode before the screen. If the HDD can't wake up from sleep mode, that would explain how the copier locks up when the screen still looks like its awake.

    this unit runs off of the ram/roms, hdd sleeping would not lock up nic. almost all of these type of issues are caused by the network enviorment that the unit is installed to. I have helped troubleshoot lots of these and it usually turns out to be somthing pinging the hell out of the copier. have even seen attacks from russia logged on a port monitoring program.A good monitoring program may pinpoint the problem.

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    C203 Intermittent lock-ups

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    How about disabling all of the unused protocols on the machine, eg netware, ftp etc.. I have a bh421 that started to lockup on printing only, would still scan and copy fine, I put it behind a router with my laptop (on the cust network so they could still scan), and no more lockups. Put it back on the cust network and i'd be lucky to get a page or 3 before the printer engine would lockup again.. tried everything I could think of (mfp bd, ic chip etc) no good.. I ultimately turned off a bunch of unused protocols @ KM's suggestion and it stopped locking up on print (so far). I know it's not the same machine but it's network settings are very similar and perhaps it's worth a try. (yes i did try different switch ports etc and installing a switch between main switch and machine, as well as changing the network connect speed etc)

    Regards!
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    Well, well, well...the service tech finally came out and replaced the HDD, NVRAM, and Control board last Tuesday.

    This morning I came in and found the copier locked up again. It locked up last night between 5 and 6pm. It was in sleep mode but there were no pending print jobs.

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    I still stand behind the conditioner recommendation. If you have a UPS, even one with a bad battery in it, try that out and see if it resolves the problem.
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    We had a Biz C350 with the same problems, after installing the latest firmware, the problem never re occurred

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    Try this: First disable sleep mode, disable Direct SMB Hosting, set the copier network card to 100M speed, and if you have a 1 Gig programmable switch set the port that the copier is connected to to 100M, if you have a 1 Gig switch that is not programmable put a cheap mini switch between the copier and the network jack. Let me know if you have any more lockups?
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    Bad RAM! That's what was causing the lockups. It's been a couple of weeks now and since replacing the ram (not the NVRAM) the copier hasn't locked up once.

    Thank you all for your help. I hope this thread might help you in the future when faced with an intermittant locking-up copier.

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