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Milt Hathaway:
So, I've got this disaster of an install that I've been contracted to finish/troubleshoot/redesign, and during installation the Original Installation Contractor (OIC for short) properly locked all of the sixteen PM8500 amps they installed. Thirteen of them will unlock with the proper 5-digit code as provided by the OIC (after threats of a lawsuit). I was able to unlock the fourteen amp by trying various typo'd versions of the code. However, there are still two that cannot be unlocked by any code version I enter.

Is there a hard reset available on these amps? I'd rather not send them on a round-trip to Bose just so someone there can spend 27 seconds clearing the amp's brain.

I have all of the data I need to reset the processing in these amps from scratch once they are cleared. I also have no problem pulling an amp out of the rack to get to whatever internal needs to be pulled/jumpered/whatever in order to completely reset it's brain.

Please PM the info to me as I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't need to know how to do this.

Thanks.

Ivan Beaver:

--- Quote from: Milt Hathaway on December 21, 2016, 07:03:17 AM ---So, I've got this disaster of an install that I've been contracted to finish/troubleshoot/redesign, and during installation the Original Installation Contractor (OIC for short) properly locked all of the sixteen PM8500 amps they installed. Thirteen of them will unlock with the proper 5-digit code as provided by the OIC (after threats of a lawsuit). I was able to unlock the fourteen amp by trying various typo'd versions of the code. However, there are still two that cannot be unlocked by any code version I enter.

Is there a hard reset available on these amps? I'd rather not send them on a round-trip to Bose just so someone there can spend 27 seconds clearing the amp's brain.

I have all of the data I need to reset the processing in these amps from scratch once they are cleared. I also have no problem pulling an amp out of the rack to get to whatever internal needs to be pulled/jumpered/whatever in order to completely reset it's brain.

Please PM the info to me as I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't need to know how to do this.

Thanks.
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I will get an answer for you soon.  "I know a guy"  ;) ;) ;)
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Ivan Beaver:
PM sent.

Hopefully it helps.

Mike Sokol:

--- Quote from: Ivan Beaver on December 21, 2016, 09:08:33 AM ---PM sent.

Hopefully it helps.

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Ivan, so you know the recipe for McDonald's "secret sauce" as well? How about KFC's secret blend of herbs and spices?  ;D

Ivan Beaver:

--- Quote from: Mike Sokol on December 21, 2016, 10:30:47 AM ---Ivan, so you know the recipe for McDonald's "secret sauce" as well? How about KFC's secret blend of herbs and spices?  ;D

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The formula for Coke is 2 parts of x, 1 part y and a sprinkle of z.

I have a friend who is a product specialist with Bose and and has been there many years.  We love to kid each other.  It is a small world.

I have friends who work for other speaker manufacturers as well.  We get along just fine and understand where we are and the positions we fill.

It is a small world.  If you can help somebody else out, they why not.

Believe me, I have been in the shoes of needing some help and questions answered.

The more we all can help each other, the better we all will be.

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