Green and red start key flashing

[Daveyboy]

Hi all
i have an mpc2500 with a start key flashing red and green.
Can anyone help?
Dave.

[TonerMunkeh]

Any other symptoms? Dead LCD? Please wait on the screen?

[femaster]

Does it say Please Wait on the screen? Generally a flashing red and green start key indicates that someone has tried to perform and operation (copy, scan, etc.) while the machine is still starting up, or in the warm-up state. Does Ready ever display on the screen?

[Daveyboy]

Does it say Please Wait on the screen? Generally a flashing red and green start key indicates that someone has tried to perform and operation (copy, scan, etc.) while the machine is still starting up, or in the warm-up state. Does Ready ever display on the screen?

I did 107 it and it worked for 17 copies then it just went to normal screen and the start key started flashing red/green and I froze agai

[femaster]

I did 107 it and it worked for 17 copies then it just went to normal screen and the start key started flashing red/green and I froze agai

Check any options (print, scan, fax, etc.) see if you can get into each (or any) of them. It almost sounds like possibly a memory or hard drive problem. Could be something else as well, but I've seen strange things like this caused by problems with Mem or HDD.

First, disconnect the HDD power and SATA cables and see if the machine has the same issue. If it does, re-attach the HDD and then try pulling the FAX module if one is installed. If that doesn't work, swap out the RAM (not NVRAM) if you have a spare or a stick of the same type and size from another machine.

Hopefully one of those tests will narrow down the problem.

HDD_RAM.jpg

[Timmytronic]

Check any options (print, scan, fax, etc.) see if you can get into each (or any) of them. It almost sounds like possibly a memory or hard drive problem. Could be something else as well, but I've seen strange things like this caused by problems with Mem or HDD.

First, disconnect the HDD power and SATA cables and see if the machine has the same issue. If it does, re-attach the HDD and then try pulling the FAX module if one is installed. If that doesn't work, swap out the RAM (not NVRAM) if you have a spare or a stick of the same type and size from another machine.

Hopefully one of those tests will narrow down the problem.

HDD_RAM.jpg

Hiya.

I had this and found it was a corrupt HDD. I just reformatted it and it solved it.