Re: This is quite extraordinary: the box I thought had failed completely is now IPLing!

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sort of, you might want to check the parameters for it on your system.
That would be the only difference.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:49 AM <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I hadn't heard of the POWER menu before this.  Does option 4 do anything
> different than PWRDWNSYS OPTION(*IMMED) RESTART(*YES)
>
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> Subject: This is quite extraordinary: the box I thought had failed
> completely is now IPLing!
>
> Just what it says on the tin:
>
> Our V5 box (the "fat" 170) has been sitting, unplugged, since it refused to
> power up after a power outage back in November.
>
> Before beginning a process of stripping it for parts, I decided to plug it
> in and see what happened.
>
> I heard something, and by the time I pulled my upper body out from behind
> it, the LCD had come to life, albeit displaying nonsense. (Why does that
> sound familiar, and why didn't I *write down* the nonsense this time?)
>
> I cycled through the various front-panel settings, and settled on the
> B-side, Normal mode, hit the start-button, and turned on the two terminals
> connected to it.
>
> It began to IPL, albeit in Attended mode, and it had completely forgotten
> the date and time.
>
> The IPL ran to completion, and soon enough, it dropped me at a command
> line,
> with a highlighted QSYSOPR message indicating a problem (but I was unable
> to
> *find* the problem), even using SST.
>
> I did a GO POWER 4, and it re-IPL'd, unattended, and now shows no
> indication
> that anything was ever wrong with it.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts?
>
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> JHHL
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