Tech called me, said he was at a WORKING 4515, saw the firmware out of date. Did the update
and it finished correctly. Upon reboot, dead display, just the power light steady. He pulled the
cover, noticed an excessive amount of dust on the cover/fan/memory. Cleaned reinstalled memory
held energy saver, powered up, still nothing. He called me and I had him try the system recovery
file. That brought the machine up and it started working. He said that he went ahead and formatted
the HDD and re-flashed the the machine, just in case something was still scrambled.
I had him run HS/HDD check and everything was ok.
So, I'm guessing something was messed up on the memory card when he flashed it?
I'm just glad the Gen 3 machines have the memory hard wired to the system board.
This "tin whisker" problem goes all the way back to the 5520 color & 855 b&w.
Thought I'd pass this one along.
and it finished correctly. Upon reboot, dead display, just the power light steady. He pulled the
cover, noticed an excessive amount of dust on the cover/fan/memory. Cleaned reinstalled memory
held energy saver, powered up, still nothing. He called me and I had him try the system recovery
file. That brought the machine up and it started working. He said that he went ahead and formatted
the HDD and re-flashed the the machine, just in case something was still scrambled.
I had him run HS/HDD check and everything was ok.
So, I'm guessing something was messed up on the memory card when he flashed it?
I'm just glad the Gen 3 machines have the memory hard wired to the system board.
This "tin whisker" problem goes all the way back to the 5520 color & 855 b&w.
Thought I'd pass this one along.
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