For those of you administering any 700 series routers, this e-mail could end up saving you a lot of wasted time. I had a 762 which suddently went haywire. When I powered it on, all led's except for NT1 flashed and ended up being on steady. No communication whatsoever came out of the box to my portable unit I had connected it to via the console cable, so I finally declared it dead. I called Cisco and was able to get it replaced with a refurbished one for $150.00, but I had to wait two weeks before I finally got it. I connected the "new" one, and the exact same weirdness happened. I was sure that they by mistake had sent me my defect router back, but after I checked the serial number, I had to accept that it was a different box. Then I got this crazy idea of trying a power supply from one of the working routers, and then it came up fine. I have seen much in my 13 years as a professional computer guy, but I had never seen a power supply having that kind of effect on the device it supplied the power to. I mean, normally either it works or not. Now I realized that I had replaced a perfectly okay router with a similar one for $150.00 but I was not any closer to a working solution. I called Cisco again and asked them about a price on that power supply, and that was also $150.00. I tried to explain that I had just kind of given away a good router to them for the same price and asked if they couldn't break a piece of the price - but that was not possible. I I then called the company (Artesyn) that made these power supplies, but they could not sell me one without a written permission from Cisco (that is far out). If anyone knows a good place to get this power supply for less than $150.00 - please let me know. And now to the moral of this story: Don't ever throw away a possible cause of a problem with the thought "No, it could never be because of that". I hope this will help at least one of you out there - this has been taking too much of my time already. Have a great day, Ole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ole Drews Jensen Systems Network Manager CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I RWR Enterprises, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
