Just bought a DoA Phaser 7800 GX

[rrutter81]

So after noodling on it last night. I figured I'd let the machine continue the boot process in hopes of understanding if a motor drive board was bad or something else of that nature.

After hooking up the transmit pin to pin 1 of the serial port and starting to log it, I got this bit of information...
Before i give the long debug, I will say this:
It did print a configuration page of the printer. So it does print.

The hard drive is shot. Like. Cant even format it shot. I hooked it up to my linux box and tried to recover it but it wont respond to anything. Even a repartition order. I am not sure if i would get a UI error from it or if there is anything i need from the hard disk for it to boot, but it is toast.

The entire log can be found here:

Uploadfiles.io - capture2.txt


regards

[itchyfinger@att.net]

people buying used equipment from unauthorized dealers have all kind of problems. I have seen this over the years. You may feel you bought the unit for a good price, but now consider the cost of the item you have put into the unit as well as your time. Now was it really a good deal? Buy equipment from authorized dealers and use OEM supplies to ensure you get the maximum buck out of your money!!

[rrutter81]

people buying used equipment from unauthorized dealers have all kind of problems. I have seen this over the years. You may feel you bought the unit for a good price, but now consider the cost of the item you have put into the unit as well as your time. Now was it really a good deal? Buy equipment from authorized dealers and use OEM supplies to ensure you get the maximum buck out of your money!!

for $5000? no thanks.

ill troubleshoot it.

1500 for the unit. - paypal issuing me a partial refund
130 for control panel
70 for sd card

-possible replacements:
110 hard drive
110 bp pwb
300 ip board

im still ahead 3000

[Phil B.]

im still ahead 3000

but is all the aggravation worth it?

what will go south next?

how long before something else fucks up?

maybe worth it to you.... but as the other tech said .... but not to most folks.

[rrutter81]

but is all the aggravation worth it?

what will go south next?

how long before something else fucks up?

maybe worth it to you.... but as the other tech said .... but not to most folks.

I get it. Most people want it to just work.
To me, i want to know how it works so i dont "need" some secretive xerox tech.

I am also an engineer for general motors so this stuff is kinda small in comparison. Hiding service manuals, diagnostic software, and charging a premium just irks me inside.

So yeah. well worth it.

[adriansto]

So yeah. well worth it.

Nice work was done.
May be this help:

[rrutter81]

Nice work was done.
May be this help:

Thanks for posting.
I took an old 200 gig hard drive and threw it in the phaser and ALT booted it. It made it's own 100 meg partition but didnt take advantage of the rest of the drive. When i order another one ill make sure to sector clone it as well.

For now the printer is on my network taking commands just fine.

Ill update as i replace each part, but for now im in no rush.