Xerox WC4150, cycles up, panel lights, then goes out, repeat.....

[Ducttape n Glue]

Xerox WC4150, cycles up, panel lights, then goes out, repeat..... the UI panel only ever glows blue , machine whirrs up then down and lights out, over and over and over again>>>> any ideas?
THX

[gregoryk]

L.V.P.S.

[pal.xerox]

Try to remove the HDD and then restart and short the bettry to remove cn27 for 1 minut.

[tech9]

remove hdd and hdd pwb completely and try and see if it boots if it does defective hdd or hdd pwb

[Ducttape n Glue]

Try to remove the HDD and then restart and short the bettry to remove cn27 for 1 minut.

could you explain this in alittle more detail. CN27?

[Ducttape n Glue]

remove hdd and hdd pwb completely and try and see if it boots if it does defective hdd or hdd pwb

Ok, that did allow the unit to power up. So either the hdd or its pwb.

[Ducttape n Glue]

Plugged it all back in and now says System Unavailable

[tech9]

More likely the HDD they go corrupt and need reformatting have done loads of 4150 with this problem.

[Ducttape n Glue]

The 4250/60 shows the ability to reformat within the diagnostics but not the 4150.

[tech9]

Thats right it has to be done manually i.e remove from machine placed into a 2.5 hdd caddy enclosure and and connected to a laptop/pc and use an application called swissknife which is a free download.
Thanks

[artphil]

The hd's of the machines are really shitty.
Out of 10 machines i had to format/replace 8 hd's

Kid regards,

Artphil

Thats right it has to be done manually i.e remove from machine placed into a 2.5 hdd caddy enclosure and and connected to a laptop/pc and use an application called swissknife which is a free download.
Thanks

[Ducttape n Glue]

Thanks guys , reformatting the HDD did the trick...we'll play with it today and make sure all is ok.

[TEKK09]

Re: Xerox WC4150, cycles up, panel lights, then goes out, repeat.....

Thats right it has to be done manually i.e remove from machine placed into a 2.5 hdd caddy enclosure and and connected to a laptop/pc and use an application called swissknife which is a free download.
Thanks

And when you reformat, which format do you use (Fat32, EXT4, NTFS etc ??)
Also does anyone know how often the HD is so far gone it has to be replaced?
Thanks.