MICS ver1.0 System resetted - lost programming 1

[tcwinont]

Thanks for any help or comments.

My system reset itself after I had reseated some line and a fiber expansion card.

I've got most of it up and running BUT for some reason, when dailing from within the system to an outside line, the tones are not being reconized by another system. Also when dailing out, I get a noticeable 'lag' before the line rings to the outside number.

I think this has to do something with DMTF but I can't find it anywhere in my documentation.

Can anybody direct me to fix this problem.

Tcwinont.

 

[tcwinont]

Never mind.

Solved my own problem. Seems Nortel for some reason defaulted the system to use 'pulse' instead of 'tones'. I guess the think we're living in the early 80's.

 

[VencomRob]

Did you re-seat that stuff hot or powered down?

Sounds like your battery in the software sleeve is dead or going to be dead soon. Might want to consider upgrading to something a bit newer.

 

[exsmogger]

On a MICS the backup capacitor is on the motherboard. You have to disassemble the whole KSU to get at the thing to replace.

Brian Cox

http://www.jandjcommunications.com

 

[tcwinont]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I had powered down the system, unseated the line and fiber cards to verify whether a new card was working properly or not because it had not been reconized in my new 12x0 fiber expansion module. Then I powered it up and got an alarm code on ext 221.

I'll have to look into that battery about repacing it.

 

[jerryreeve]

check out this posting thread799-553997 this is talking about the 8X24 but I think the carrier for the software is the same. look at the next to last entry about the batteries.

JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[EdMcC]

"I had powered down the system, unseated the line and fiber cards to verify whether a new card was working properly or not because it had not been reconized in my new 12x0 fiber expansion module. Then I powered it up and got an alarm code on ext 221."

If you 'downgrade' the MICS (in this case, removing the fiber exp. card) and power up the system will cold reset. I use this as a trick to totally reset systems.

Ed

 

[tcwinont]

EdMcc:

Thanks for the tip. It seems that I had a bad 6-port fiber card and am waiting for a replacement. For now, I have am running the system without the card, change my DN to 3 digits from the default 2 digits. The next time I power down the system to insert the replacement fiber card, will it affect my settings?

 

[Arr]

TC,
You will be OK going up. It's just commig down that will get you every time.

If you did a worksheet back up before comming down, then you could do a worksheet restore on the downgraded system. This doens't work between software revisions, just expansions where the DN length doesn't change.

Cheers
PhM

 

[tcwinont]

Sigh.

I finally got my replacement card. My vendor said they tested it to ensure it worked (although I did have to repeatedly call them) however, sure enough, I put the card in and still the same. Nothing on trunk modules 3-8. I tried seating the LS/DS cards in both right and left slots in the fiber expansion module (but not the middle) and my system still says 'empty'.

Anybody have any suggestions? I mean, what would are the olds that two fiber cards could be bad in a row? Could it supply be the fiber cable? Or maybe the fiber module itself? How about my MICS system? It's old and has only software version SP: 30nCG19 NAT. Could it be this?

I've got the card plugged into slot C in the MICS. I know that it has to go there first based on past experience. Or maybe could it be this particular batch of cards that I received? My vendor ran my through some ports and mentioned to me that this could be the problem as it reported that I had a 0x16 station module installed.

On the FIRST card is says 'NNTM0408VALR and NTBB06GA-93 REL 01C. The second card is says 'NNTM84567G51 and NTBB06GA-93 0011 REL 03.

I was supposed to get a 2-port card only but 6 where the only ones he had. Should I get a 2-port one and pray that this solves my problem?

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.

 

[curlycord]

Is your Fiber Card in the second slot from the left? it should be if not! this is where Mod ports 3-8 sit, and 9-14 sit on the left, the first slot.

Also check/swap the fiber cord as it may be damaged and make sure it is connected properly.

 

[tcwinont]

Curlycord:

Yes I do have the card installed in the second slot (C).

Now I was thinking if I installed the first card (since I still have it) and seeing what happens but I think my software is too old to support to cards. I'm just throwing something out there.

Also I read about an empty fiber module if it's empty the red light should be blinking?
thread799-751884 If it doesn't blink will empty I'm going to have to think that the module is bad. Would having the fibre cable installed to the empty module make a difference whether it blinks or not?

When I get back to the site I'll have to try this out.

 

[curlycord]

Slot C? slot 1 is for second exp. card slot 2 is for 1st exp. card slot 3 is for second trunk card and slot 4 is for the first trunk card, slot numbers are labeled at the bottom.
1st Trunk module plugs into port 8 and 1st Station module to port 3 or the exp. card.

If for sure you have all in the place and have proven the fiber cable is not broken inside and still have troubles then you might try a system startup when you know all is hooked up, plugged in.The KSU might take 5 minutes to boot and if you see cold start and reset then do a cold.

I think you are saying you have 1 expansion card and its a 6 port, if you had a 2 port was the trunk plugged into 1 or 2 of the 2 port card?

 

[MarvO1]

Yaw, nortel labels the slots 1,2,3,4 in the plastic, but calls them A,B,C,D, in the book.

MarvO said it

 

[tcwinont]

Guys:

I powered down my fiber module, removed the LS/DS card, unplugged the fiber cable and powered the module back on. The red light does NOT blink. Should I get a replacement one?

 

[tcwinont]

One more thing:

Of all of a sudden, my newest LS/DS card is not working. I verified this buy pulling out one of the two working LS/DS cards that I have in the main cabinet, putting this one in and in system programming it only sees the one good LS/DS card.

Would it matter, if a MICS was not installed with two LS/DS cards but with one and the other installed into the fiber module? Should the system still see the LS/DS card in the module? I'm pretty sure I tried this to verify I wasn't going crazy and doing something wrong and the system still said empty modules 3-8.