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"Setup Failed" message in Empower message center - WKB24067

Article number: 24067

SYMPTOMS

  • "Setup Failed" entry in Empower 3 message center
  • Cannot monitor baseline
  • On the Node properties Instruments tab, all instruments say OK? - YES, except for the module that has setup failed error
  • Run Samples and Empower 3 message center show instrument failure

ENVIRONMENT

  • Empower 3
  • 2414 Refractive Index Detector running via IEEE cable in 410 Emulation mode
  • All Waters IEEE devices

CAUSE

Bad IEEE cable

FIX or WORKAROUND

  1. Replace or clean and reseat the IEEE cable. 
  2. Do a full reboot of the system and the PC, in the proper order.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

See KCS article 1507 for the proper reboot sequence.

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