Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Re: Shutdown p5000etch SNF 2010-06-28 13:13:22: Hard Drive problems continues

Hooray! Sean from Applied came in this morning with a new power supply. He and Cesar finished the installation and it works! Jim Haydon found a bad diode on the center finder board and replaced it. It works too! Recipe and date problems continue. We still need to replace the hard drive some time soon -- the suspicion is that there are a lot of bad sectors on the board which prevent us from managing the recipes. However, although we have a new, compatible hard drive, it can't get formatted because the system date/time is wrong. There is apparently a chip on the SBC controller board which governs date/time; Sean from Applied is looking into the replacement/programming procedure. Alternatively, replacement of the SBC board to a newer model (which would require other upgrades as well.)
So, the system is up now. But we hope to schedule downtime in coming weeks to address hard drive issues.

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