Sooo, not just me then?
Sounds they need to hire the Oce' tech writers. Say what you want about their machines (the new ones especially suck since bought out by Canon), but the older SRS manuals were on point.
I vividly recall my first day at a previous job, when part of my duties was the care and feeding (and occasional complete rebuild) of a couple Oce' 9800 large format copiers. We called these the Green Beast, and not because of the amount of work they could put out. The service manual was something like 2200 pages. It came bound with Chicago posts. The first time I was the SRS manual, I thought I'd have a stroke, but it was so well written and organized, that almost anyone could diagnose (if not fix) a problem within about 10 minutes, just by reading the error code and looking it up in the 'Oce' bible'.
I mean, this silly contraption (the machine, not the manual lol) had an actual key like a car to switch it from OFF to RUN, to 'Service Mode'.
I loved/Hated that thing. It was the only thing about that job I miss.
So here's a weird one...
I figured that I'd just pull the drive and go back to fiddling with the network stuff until the new HDD arrives.
I removed the drive, then powered the machine back on to uninstall it in software.
I log into CE, go to the menu for HDD, and press the button to tell it that the Hard Drive is in fact NOT installed and.... nada.
I know it takes a while, but I waited over a minute, and it never flipped. I tried it twice, nothing. It won't uninstall. Huh. Now what?
I can just wait until the new drive comes, since I'll need that switch back on anyway, but I'm nowhere near that patient. Plus, I wanted to try to get it set up on my network and printing in the meantime.
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