rockits
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Had a weird one years ago with an Apple Laserwriter laser printer when I was a little Apple Engineer (computer not fruit btw).
It had 4 Led's and gave fault codes indicating a fault depending on pattern/order of lit Led's displayed. This time it showed all 4 flashing one after the other. Diagnostic key said that was random error of no known fault code..... helpful! Basically there is a fault but I have no idea what or where it is. Your on your own
Over several months most of our engineers had spent time looking at it and couldn't find the fault nor fix it. As a silly keen young lad I went in one weekend on my own time just to fix the bl00dy thing. After stripping the whole thing down to lots of bits I noticed a small interface cable had a connector very slightly loose and not home fully. Pushed it home to a nice click and bobs your uncle....all fixed. POST'd fine after that and worked a treat with no issues.
Likely completely irrelevant and this was reasonably basic tech maybe 25 years ago. Just goes to highlight though that issues can sometimes not be picked up as expected or documented faults and leave many scratching their heads. On a modern high tech sports car the potential for varying issues is pretty immense I should imagine.
It had 4 Led's and gave fault codes indicating a fault depending on pattern/order of lit Led's displayed. This time it showed all 4 flashing one after the other. Diagnostic key said that was random error of no known fault code..... helpful! Basically there is a fault but I have no idea what or where it is. Your on your own
Over several months most of our engineers had spent time looking at it and couldn't find the fault nor fix it. As a silly keen young lad I went in one weekend on my own time just to fix the bl00dy thing. After stripping the whole thing down to lots of bits I noticed a small interface cable had a connector very slightly loose and not home fully. Pushed it home to a nice click and bobs your uncle....all fixed. POST'd fine after that and worked a treat with no issues.
Likely completely irrelevant and this was reasonably basic tech maybe 25 years ago. Just goes to highlight though that issues can sometimes not be picked up as expected or documented faults and leave many scratching their heads. On a modern high tech sports car the potential for varying issues is pretty immense I should imagine.