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Look up the section on programming. Section 9104-091-210. Page 4, Initial Power Up Procedure. -105 is the features description. It IS your friend, READ IT!

Bob-o, you posted in the wrong thread! Your answer is that when the system is uninitialized, any displays and work or not work reactions are of no interest, you cannot 'fix' the mysteries of randomly loaded RAM! Just imagine the result if, on a binary level, you changed all the 1's to 0's and vice versa in 'WORD' for instance. "Same game, different name", so to speak. You cannot hurt anything by initializing the system, even if you do it wrong! However, I would suggest you initialize it at least 2 consecutive times. Sometimes, if it's REALLY hosed, it doesn't get cleaned up completely with only 1.

And if I remember correctly, Mitel suggests initialize 3 times with cards out, 3 times with cards in! That should give you a really clean start!

No argument here.

Well thank you, JC.

Thanks to all for the help. It's amazing how ignorant I am to these systems, and then how a light bulb just kind of 'goes off' once you start reading the manual.

I reset the system, and everything is 100%! The system does exactly what I need it to do, and it's going to work out great.

I'm sure I'll have questions again, but I do have one now. How would you set up a courtesy phone (i.e., dial a number automatically from a handset when the receiver is picked up)? I didn't see that anywhere in the manual, of course I just may not have looked in the right place.

Make a COS for the Hotline and set it up as an Automatic Ringdown Circuit (Command 121-129, Reg 2, Field d)

Set the Hotline extension up in Hotline Group 2-9 (Command 301-310, Reg=Circuit #, Field c=2-9).

The Hotline Groups 2-9 correspond to Abbrev Dial 102-109. If these are blank, the extension dials the console by default.

Good luck,

Just wanted to give an update on everything. I reset the system as per the suggestions given by Lightninghorse and westerntelephone. Everything works great.

I am currently running 24 1930-1950's vintage rotary phones (some old PBX phones, some candlesticks, space-savers, some 500's, old explosion-proof phones, etc...). All of them work flawlessly on this system. All features seem to work great, i.e., hold, conference, transfer, night ringing, overflow, hotlines, etc...

Just wanted to give all of you a pat on the back for helping me out!

Enjoy your day...

Bob-o, thanks for getting back to us. And come back anytime! John C.

Another satisfied customer, way to go guys