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Hello,
I have three Uniwell TX-850 terminals that I am programming for a local restarant. One of the tills was screwed when I arrived. Now, I have read this forum ALOT trying to figure out what to do....but still stumped
I programmed one of the tills are erasing all the data in it (SP-9999). It took me about 2 solid days (no sleep) to program in the restarants complex menu. Fun fun fun.
I was going to use the ECR communications to send data from the one till as a master to send deata to the other working one and get two of the three stations set up at the resarant.
Problem is this...The third till had a bad key lock. I replaced it from a kit I had. Works fine. I disconnected the battery from the programmed one that was ready to go. as a test and placed it in the newly repaired one. Now I have 2 TX-850's that say "INITAL SETUP REQUIRED"
My question is this...HOW do i do that ? Did i loose my programming by removing the battery? I have the engineers code. I have that 6** code as well. I can use the 6** code to get nto a test menu, but it will not accept the engineers code to get into programming.
Also, I should mention that I can turn the key to the "R" position and I get a default register menu on the screen, but no clerk buttons work and there is no clerk ID button only Cler1, clerk2, ect...in fact no buttons work, they only beep.
Pleadse help me guys as I promised the owner the tills today. And now Im foo barred 
Hi There,
It sounds like you are in a real pickle my friend but can you just confirm, was it the fully working and programmed terminal that you removed the battery from? and it is this one that is now saying Setup required?
Cheers
Hello,
Alolow me to explain. Lol.
There were two working and one jammed till.
The two working one I set aside. The non working one had a bad battery and blown fuse.
While I waited for a new fuse to arrive to my local electronics suplly place, I programmed one of the working tills with the new menu.
Now, Last night I finished programming the one working till and turned it off and unplugged it.
I also recieved the new fuse yesterday so I put in the new fuse. Needing a good battery to test, I stupidly took the battery out of the till I had just finished programming.
The broken till powered up and it says "INITIAL SETUP REQ." I thought "great it works somewhat" so I shut it off and placed the battery back into the programmed till. Thinking I would buy a new battery this week and replace the dead one in the non-working till. Only to my horro when I took the programmed and working till back this morning, it to now says "INITIAL SETUP REQ."
So...obviously my programming was all for naught, I am currently faced with the situation where I have
2 - "Inital Setup Req." units
1 - Working Unit (needs menu replaced)
problem is, I need all threee to work
I was hoping that I could get them setup and then just use software and solder up a cable and dump the menus into all three.
(By the way I have a bach in computer science and a PEng in Electronics so I have some brains. lmao 
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Anyway, any help you could give me would be GREATLY aprpeciated....
I'm gutted for you because you have as you suspect lost all of your hard work, the battery on the mainboard is the backup for the program and is the only real reason a battery is needed. The till will actually work fine without one at all but the second it is powered off with no battery it will lose everything.
So unfortunately it is back to square one.
The setup required is just a message that is displayed when the machine is powered on for the first time after being reset or losing all it's programming. All you need to do is get back into the programming menu using the main engineer code 2******5 in the SP position and do a 9999 again and start from scratch.
Do you have a key labelled 'S' which seems to go to an unmarked position on the key lock, one click past Z1 I think it is?
Yes actually, I have all hte keys for the units. I have 2 each "X" keys 1 each "Y" key and 1 "S" key. I know the key posistion your refering to the so called "IR" position.
The thing is, When I go into the S position on the key lock, I enter the engineers code and nothing happens except it beeps.
