should i perform 5801 clearing all

**blackcat4866** · 07-08-2018

Back 25 years ago this seemed like the thing to do. I have to say that it rarely fixed anything though. Only if you have a tech that likes to change settings randomly (and I sure hope not).

It's probably too late now to say "Don't do it."

All you end up doing is creating several hours of entirely unnecessary work, trying to recover settings that you already had in the beginning, and tossed out. =^..^=

**mlandry71** · 07-08-2018

Originally Posted by slimslob

"SD Card not seated means just that. An installed application is set to run from the SD card. If it is a JAVA function you cannot stop it or uninstall it if you do not have it.

So that goes to show why I had no other choice for my issue. Someone must've switched sd cards and I couldn't remove all the installed apps.

**Oze** · 07-08-2018

And STILL the OP hasn't told us why he's wanting to do a Clear All for his fault...or whatever the hell his fault IS for that matter

**zed255** · 07-09-2018

Zombie thread from 2011.

**Oze** · 07-09-2018

Originally Posted by zed255

Zombie thread from 2011.

SH!!!!!!!!T....Sucked me right in....now to hunt the troll who awakened this ancient thread...!!!

**Oze** · 07-09-2018

Originally Posted by mlandry71

just putting this here in case someone comes across this...

Had the message "sd card not seated correctly..." which would NOT go away even after full hdd format, removed all java apps (then removed all sd cards - java and postscript), and a 5801-003 SCS clear...I even updated/reflashed the firmware and still had the damn sd card message!

A thorough look through the 5990 non-defaults did not reveal anything abnormal.

Only thing that seemed to work was 5801-001 all clear. Even then, putting the saved nvram data back on it caused the message to show up again.
So I had to "all clear" and start from scratch (using the non-defaults from before as a reference) to keep it proper.

!ALWAYS get 5990 data before doing this!

Maybe something else would have resolved this, but trying to figure it out was taking longer than wiping it and starting over.
(I posted here because I think it's related as one of the few times this would be performed)

Found me the Troll who awakened the sleeping thread.
In future man....post a NEW thread.
Just so we don't resurrect the dead