Sharp AR-287 E7-07 error

[J_Lee]

FIXED!

Turned out to be the scanner PWB. After months sittin in the shop.

[blackcat4866]

You may get a temporary reprieve, but eventually you'll end up changing a hard drive. Those codes don't just 'heal themselves'. No it's not optical.

[J_Lee]

Optics?

Could it be in the optics because it only does it when copying. When you print internally it doesn't do it? Also, it doesn't throw the error code anymore... only in the beggining???

[blackcat4866]

It sounds like you got a bad HDD. You can try to format it, or try another one. There is a remote possibility that you're experiencing an ICU board problem, but the HDD is still the most likely. Have you checked the DC power to run the hard drive? Maybe you've got a bad power supply...

=^..^=

[J_Lee]

lol

[Hemlock]

Hard drive failures on cougars are very common.

There's a tranny joke in there somewhere.

[J_Lee]

Replaced hard drive... Came Back

Got part number from the seagate hard drive had one ordered popped it in and made some packets for the customer worked great... The next day they called in doing the same thing. Had to take them a loaner brought their machine in. Could it be the laser or could I have possibly gotten a bad hard drive again. It was refurbished by the way....???? H E L P. Also I am doing an HDD R/W test and its taking a long time... Should it take so long?

[ZOOTECH]

The HDD is located in the scanner section to the right of the lens/CCD under a cover.

[J_Lee]

Where?

Where is the hard drive? I opened up the back of the machine and looked all around. I think Im looking for something that looks like the hard drive in the formatter of the HP Laserjet 9050. Does it look like this. I know Im going to feel dumb after you tell me.

[blackcat4866]

If the drive is the same size you can just drop it in. No need to format. It probably isn't the same size. The AR-335 is an earlier build than the AR-287. They aren't very similar as electronics goes.

Occasionally I've gotten lucky with a similarly close size drive. You won't do any harm. It'll work or it won't.

Another option is to take the manufacturer information off the original hard drive, and Google search out a replacement. I've had good luck with that.

[J_Lee]

OK Came Back

Copies are streaking now as in not going into memory correctly. Not a copy quality issue optics are clean class is clean. Probably HDD problem like you said BlackCat. Let me ask you a question... Would the hard drive from a 335 fit in a 287? I have a 335 parts machine in the shop that hasnt been stripped to pieces.

[J_Lee]

OK.... gotcha. Well I reset the error in simulation and cleaned the optics which I thought had something to do with it but as you said, it doesn't. Customer hasn't called back but time will tell. Thank You.

[blackcat4866]

As an example, when your doing a sort copy job, the HDD holds the whole copy job, then providing the page data as needed, i.e.: pg 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5, 8, 7, etc., then on to the next set 2, 1, 4, 3, etc.

[J_Lee]

So what does that mean? The customers only use it as a copier. What exactly is a hard drive error and how does it affect just copying?

[blackcat4866]

Uh-oh. HDD trouble. Hard drive failures on cougars are very common.