HTU SOP for no-go.Dear Editor, It's not unusual to run into handheld terminal units (HTU HTU - Handheld Terminal Unit HTU - Hate You HTU - HDSL Terminal/Transmission Unit HTU - Helicopter Training Unit (US Navy aviation unit designation used in from 1950 to 1957) HTU - Hispanic Theological Union HTU - Hourly Thermal Unit HTU - How to Universe HTU - Hydrodynamic Test Unit) that have defective batteries that cause them to not; operate properly or at all. That stops artillery targeting in the field. I've found a way that sometimes can keep your HTU going in the field until you can get the battery replaced: If you get; a message when you power up the HTU saying the system configuration is invalid and asking you to press F1 or F2, press F2. That puts you in the BIOS setup A startup routine in a PC that enables users to reconfigure hardware settings that are stored in a small, battery-backed memory bank. Although today's BIOSs can detect new drives and update their settings automatically, older PCs required manual entering of disk parameters after a new drive was installed. All BIOSs let you get to their settings at startup.. After updating the date and time, configure the BIOS like this: diskette A: NOT INSTALLED boot disk Same as bootable disk. 0: Auto 1 disk 1: NOT INSTALLED internal disk See internal drive.: boot disk 0 speaker control: ON color enhance: OFF PCMCIA slot: Slot 1 PCMCIA HDD Type: Integral Page 2 (page down) power management: DISABLED system idle after: DISABLED system standby after: DISABLED system suspend after: DISABLED With any luck, this will get your HTU going. If you power up the HTU and have no visible screen even though the green power light is on, use this code: F2, ESC, FS, ESC, F4 F4 - Fantasy 4ever (music album) F4 - Florida Family Film Festival F4 - Fluoride. After about 15 seconds, the HTU should shut down and then reboot and give a visible screen. You will need to set the BIOS again and enter the settings previously noted (in the shaded area). SSG Charles Story A Btry, 2/6th ADA Ft; Bliss, TX Editor's note: Good suggestion, Sergeant.' This is a field fix only. As soon as possible, get the HTU internal battery replaced. If you're using forward observer software (FOS FOS - Fabric Operating System (Brocade) FOS - Factor Of Safety FOS - Failure of Selection (US DoD) FOS - Faint Object Spectrograph FOS - Faint Object Spectrometer FOS - Fall Of Shot FOS - Family of Systems FOS - Father Over Shoulder FOS - Feature of Size (geometric dimensioning) FOS - Federation of Workers Trade Unions (Haiti) FOS - Fellowship of the Services FOS - Fiber Optic Sensor FOS - Field of Search (sensor management systems)), the "boot disk O: Auto 1" may need to be set differently. See the FOS software loading instructions for the correct BIOS boot disk parameters. If you have an external VGA monitor An analog display screen that accepts VGA signals from the computer. See VGA and display adapter., CECOM's David Fisher points out that it can be plugged into Port J4 J4 - Joint Staff, Logistics J4 - Logistics Directorate and the screen output will appear on the monitor. This lets you confirm the batten problem and gives your repairman access to the CMOS battery A battery that maintains the time, date, hard disk and other configuration settings in the CMOS memory. CMOS batteries are small and are attached directly to the motherboard. See BIOS setup and batteries. settings without the guesswork of using the key sequence. |
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