RE: Weak Battery Options

Thank you Larry - the IPL did continue on - it looked like it was
stopped at the "memory dump" message.

I called IBM. It took the gal nearly 20 minutes to find out that our
machine had been on maintenance for several years already. On a scale
of 1-10, I rated this person a -0.5. Absolutely a nightmare! Horrible
customer service! A joke!!!

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Bolhuis
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 10:37 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Weak Battery Options

Those UPSs were a bit of a bugger. You can get the batteries from any
decent battery place (e.g. Batteries Plus), they are very standard. The
fun part is getting the cables correct so that the batteries fit back
into the drawer. You may have one, two, or three drawers with four
batteries each. In some cases those UPS just died flat and the white
button on the UPS did nothing at all but by now if you haven't replace
the batteries in that thing at LEAST once those inside it are certainly
scrap.

Oh, and try the IPL again, it will likely complete this time. Chances
are the dump was taken due to the hard drop.

- Larry

Don Cavaiani wrote:

We just had the SAME PROBLEM - A split second power blip! System
still re-booting. We have a M/T 9910-140 UPS on our model 170.
Anyone know where I can go for batteries?

NOW - I see that it will not IPL - get "Main Storage Dump Occurred" -

Call IBM service ......

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:11 PM