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Originally Posted by Beav

In automotive parlance it means, "You are in the midst of a cluster f**k and this is how this particular device reports the error when it doesn't know exactly what is happening."

I thought that's what they were trying to say, without really saying it. After 40 years at Boeing, troubleshooting F-15's and F-18's, I though I had seen every possible way of saying the same thing. It seemed like every problem we ever had with the avionics systems had never before been seen by anyone else.

We had systems that would spit out 10 or 15 trouble codes at the same time. Experienced technicians could look at the group and see the pattern that told them where the single failure was. We tried to develop an Artificial Intelligence system that the "Customer's" Maintainers could use to fix these troublesome jets. It was never able to duplicate the logic that our technicians had in their brains.

I'll go back to making my best guess without throwing a lot of money at it. Thanks for your help.

- Jim