Re: Component level repair

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Model 150 AFAIK doesnt use licences, at least up to v4r5 so it should
boot. Don't know how it handles being offline that long i remember
reading that some machines asked for the SystemPassword if turned off
for long times...
Best of luck

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Yvan Janssens <ik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a Model 150 from which the capacitors went quite bad, and we're
> currently desoldering them at the local hackerspace to revive the machine.
> (there's three left)
>
> Are there special considerations to take into account with licensing/boot
> firmware/... when doing this? Lots of things will be changed on the
> hardware side, and I tend to remember reading something that Big Blue
> doesn't like self-carried out repairs and asks for a specific password if
> you change too much.
>
> Thank you for your advice,
>
> Yvan
>
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