Hello Folks,Since this machine is widely used maybe one of you had this happen: Moved it to the shiny new office, turned it on, nada, zilch. Only a backlit blank LCD. Power cycling, pressing and holding buttons and such produces no reaction.Any ideas how to fix/reset the thang? Or does this mean it's dead? It is a Brother MFC-7820N but I think they are all similar.Jim will say I should have bought a HP. But, my HP needs 3-4 power cycles per week while the Brother only needed one a month. For today's design standards in consumer gear that's probably "good".-- Regards, Joerg"gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam.Use another domain or send PM.

Not that any of this is likely to help you....I had the same thing after a mains power bump last week. Couldn't get the thing to respond at all so a replacement was purchased. After sitting for a couple of days I repowered the failed unit and it decides it wants to work again and now performs fine. Dried out caps in the SMPS?? beats me.

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Jim Thompson 17 years ago

Mine is several years old, but also on the original cartridge, though it's down to claiming ~300 pages to go.

Some years back you may recall I had a problem with Dell. The PC I had them ship directly to my father wouldn't boot up.

After much run-a-round with "English-speaking next available agents" I did some snooping, determined the VP of "support's" direct street address, sent him a FedEx Letter.

Said some of my usual "kind words" ;-)

Next day they sent a technician to Huntington, WV, to my father's house to fix it.

And this will really get you... it wouldn't boot because the hard-drive they stuck in it, and obviously didn't test, had Win95 as the OS :-(

I'll watch or it ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson 17 years ago

[snip]

^^---------- should be "for"

Looks like this keyboard needs replacing ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Spehro Pefhany 17 years ago

Hey, free WiFi at Sky Harbor-- (surprisingly) civilized. ;-)

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Jim Thompson 17 years ago

Sky Harbor is a big money-maker for PHX.

...Jim Thompson

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JosephKK 17 years ago

has one buried inside,

*really* wants to get at it.

get confused. For this

the current &^@%$!!

It is a real one on the PSU case, and i open the PSU to see to it that it is real. The TV and the Stereo both have standby switches (IR remotes).

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krw 17 years ago

has one buried inside,

*really* wants to get at it.

get confused. For this

like the current &^@%$!!

Ah, some (most?) PSUs don't even have that. Do you actually use it?

Damned little has real power switches anymore.

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Joerg 17 years ago

Just want to report that it repaired itself, after lots of power cycling that I had to do to move probes around. Weird, really weird. Now if I knew where the uC reset is I could probably fix it for good. But all it says on the uC is "Concordia LJ9899001", no logo, totally unknown brand. Shows up on some Asian sites but without any useful information.

Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.

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Jim Thompson 17 years ago

The printer was only temporarily Californicated ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

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JosephKK 17 years ago

Thinkpad has one buried inside,

*really* wants to get at it.

get confused. For this

like the current &^@%$!!

It is a selection criteria. Yes, to take a unit fully out of service for whatever reason, usually HW upgrades.

Yup.

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Joerg 17 years ago

Come to think of it, hmm, it began to work just after the budget was passed. A tax increase :-(

But it's dark gray, not blue.

Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.

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