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(ASCEND) Fw: Dead Pipeline 50 -- How to reset?

Just FYI,

My dead pipeline is back to life now.

For older pipelines (this one is Sn:6110773) do the following to erase a
pipeline
config and reload from scratch.

0.) Kill power.
1.) Open case, find the big motorola chip, their are two jumpers above this
chip
      short out jumper P6
2.) Restore power, attach serial cable, open hyperterm and wait a minute or
two
      then hit enter and CTRL-L....you should get a Pipeline50> prompt
3.) first type >ef [enter]  (for erase flash)
     next type >df [enter] (for download flash)
4.) In hyperterm go up to Transfer, Send,
        for file name browse to b.50 (or whatever your load should be)
        (This means you have to have b.50 ready first....get 4.6Ci18 from
the incrementals)
      Set protocol to 1k
5.) when its done, kill the power, remove the jumper on P6, restore power
6.) upgrade software to 5.0A
7.) upgrade software to 5.1Ap8 (The most stable pipeline release out now.)
8.) Whola....and it didn't cost $240 bucks....would have been easier with
      some instructions somewhere though...



-----Original Message-----
From: MyLink Ascend Admin <Ascend@MyLink.net>
To: ascend-users@bungi.com <ascend-users@bungi.com>
Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 12:54 PM
Subject: Dead Pipeline 50 -- How to reset?


>We have an ancient pipeline 50 that lost it's ability to establish
>ISDN connections today.  The software was 4.6B+ so
>naturally I figured it was time to upgrade the software in the box
>to see if it would start working agin..it had been giving us random
>problems for some time such as rebooting when attempting telnet
>connections, etc... ..so it was flashed to 5.1A+ and restarted....only
>it didn't come back up....just constantly brings up the power on Self
>Test and reboots...over and over.
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>A call to ascend was placed, they took the model number and serial
>number (6118134) then immediately told me that an RMA would be
>issued.  I get a fax saying sorry, the unit is out of warranty and it
>will be $127 to repair it or $236 to replace it.
>
>Now I can understand the need for a warranty, but I get the feeling
>that these old style pipelines were pieces of shit to begin with
>and the software they shipped on the unit was crap and has never
>worked reliably...so I have a little frustration at trying to update the
>software (exactly according to directions, done it plenty on our newer
>pipelines....it was the software or the hardware that screwed the unit)
>and having to pay for ascend's sorry ass engineering mistakes.
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>Now to the point,  any ideas on how to fix this pipe without shelling out
>to ascend agin?  Can I just open the unit up and clear some jumpers
>or something and reload a software rev through the serial port?
>
>Thanks,
>Scott McDonald
>Scott@MyLink.net
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