Waters 3100 - Rebooting and Standby Procedures

Rebooting the instrument 2-11
Purging the infusion syringe
Whenever you replace a solution bottle, purge the infusion syringe with the
solution that you are going to use next. See the mass spectrometer’s online
Help for details.
Tip: Depending on the solutions used, the IntelliStart Fluidics system can
require more than one purge cycle to minimize carryover.
Rebooting the instrument
Reboot the instrument when any of these conditions applies
• The Tune window fails to respond.
• Empower or MassLynx software fails to initialize.
• Immediately following a software upgrade.
Rebooting the instrument by pressing the reset button
The reset button shuts down the electronics momentarily and causes the
instrument to reboot.
To reboot the instrument by pressing the reset button
1. Open the instrument’s front, left-hand door.
2. Press the red, reset button at the top, left-hand side of the instrument.
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