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

Sorry I never use that option. I don't know if it does a controlled or
immediate shutdown, (just tried it and it does not reveal its secret.)
That would be the main difference.

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On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 9:32 AM <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

check the parameters for "it"...what is "it"? I don't see any parameters
for option 4 (can't F4 to prompt).

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

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

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Chief Technical Architect
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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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