RE: Power off and on tasks

I've got a brand new pair of roller skates...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Power off and on tasks
> From: "Steve Morrison" <smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, September 01, 2004 10:39 am
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Greg,
> 
> The front beauty panel does not affect the operation of the system. It does
> sometimes take a little work to get the panels and the locking arms to set
> correctly.
> 
> You mentioned earlier that your key was set to NORMAL. What model AS/400 do
> you have? Do you have a brass key that slips into a lock and rotates to
> different settings, or do you have a black plastic key that fits into a slot
> in the front panel?
> 
> Do you have any MODE lights near the key? If so, which one is lit up?
> 
> Steve Morrison
> Beacon Insurance
> 940-720-4672 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Wenzloff [mailto:GWenzloff@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: Power off and on tasks
> 
> I just thought of another possible reason my power off does not work.  It
> seems really remote to me but here it is:
> 
> When the FE left he did not properly secure the front panel to the AS400.
> It actually fell off in the middle of the day.   I tried to secure it back
> on but did not want to jiggle and bang on a running computer too much.
> There is a key that gets rotated to extend two arms into a recess on each
> side.  I could not get these arms to go all the way in and the key could
> only rotate about half way.  I did notice that these arms lift up on a
> lever.  Perhaps the machine knows the front is not on properly.
> 
> Is this too much of a stretch? Anyone out there know hardware?
> 
> Greg
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