AS400 Won't power up? <--- total newbie to as400

Hi
on the pannel you have a LCD display.
This will go through a sequance as the system starts up (we call it an IPL Initial program Load).
You need to watch what codes come up and write them down.

Let us know what they are and we can figure out what is wrong.

I is usually harware if it will not IPL.

You also have the option to IPL from A or B. You usually go from B and A is a back-up from a previous upgrade.

You may want to try an IPL from A.

What model AS/400 do you have?

Dave

Dave, thanks.

I'm currently tryng to ipl in A . the lcd shows c600432a. I'll update with further info as it becomes available.

ok. right after i posted that I went to look - on the console the screen came up saying that it was beginning the IPL, and then it died, with the code:

10112551

displayed on the LCD.

Thanks again.

Hi
for info here is the link I an using for Reference

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm

I have gone to the O/S level as I am unsure what version you are running

Dave

ps
again all I will do is look at the codes and give an expplination on what they do,

you reallt need to sit down infron of the LCD and look at what is happening - this is very boaring but is the only way to find out what the issue is.

You can print a list of all the SRC codes and check them off - keeps you a bit entertained.

Dave

from what I gather from googling, anything that starts with 10 means power. I'm reading those links you have there, thanks much. I've "retired" for the day and will begin banging on this again tommorow.

-Jim

tom - thanks, that was very informative.  Off-hand I don't know what the server is (remember, I'm a noob to this stuff, hah!) But I will check when I'm in the office tommorow. I imagine my entire day and maybe weekend will center around fixing this thing

hey, great chance to learn more about it right! (grumble...)

Jim:

Basic evolution was generally this way:

0. System/38 (and System/36)
1. AS/400
2. AS/400e
3. iSeries
4. iSeries i5

(An iSeries i5 is a particular subset of iSeries.)

The old S/38 was something of a marvel for its time, technically going back some 30 years ago. The AS/400 was initially released in 1988 as the successor to the S/38 and the S/36; it was a merging of the advanced features of the S/38 with some of the ease-of-use and other features of the S/36. ("Ease-of-use" in terms of the timeframe.)

The first AS/400s were really nothing but an S/38 with an updated menuing system and some general UI changes plus a folder/document structure imported from the S/36.

Every AS/400 and AS/400e I can recall has had "AS/400" or "AS/400e" pretty easy to find on the front. At least some iSeries have "iSeries" that can be easy to miss somewhere on the front but "eServer" might be much more prominent. And at least some i5s don't have "iSeries" (nor "AS/400") visible at all: but "eServer i5" should be there (on the front cover, if the cover is close by and hasn't been removed and stashed out of the way somewhere).

At times, it's seemed as if IBM hasn't wanted to advertise the presence of AS/400s/iSeries in a datacenter nor anywhere else. Those of us who've worked a few decades on numerous platforms are often irritated at that.

Tom

BTW, if you have good Windows/Linux/Unix experience and you have a reasonably up-to-date system, you know a lot more about your AS/400 than you realize. It's just that there's a bunch of additional stuff in there that wasn't also in those (without buying/installing more for them).

Tom

Hi Heem14,

Every thing that can be wrong is already written here, but hey don't be to negative over the AS/400, after working Windows and Linux, you now have the posibility to work with a real computer and a good OS.

Regards
Murph

thanks guys. although I haven't found the exact problem yet, you guys have lead me in the right direction.


oh, for what it's worth - IBM wanted $8,206 just to talk to me about this problem.

sigh.

Jim:

Then, you don't have any maintenance contract? Ouch. However, eight grand would be seriously excessive unless it's the cost of maybe a year's maintenance on a fair-sized system. A 3-year prepay on my 170 was $1950. Without a contract, it ought to be an hourly rate plus any parts costs. Depending on the part (which seems pretty critical to the system) and the system model, $8K might make sense again.

Tom

Hey Heem14

Take a service contract, it's worth it and all service-/helpdesk is free.