(b)(6) reported that the central nurse's station (cns) randomly shut down on its own.(b)(6) tried to boot up the cns with one hard drive at a time and just heard the internal fan blowing at full speed but still did not see any video being displayed.Bme stated that these cns monitors are directly connected to the cpu tower.Biomed swapped out to another monitor and still no video display from the monitor, he also tried one monitor being plugged in, but the issue persisted.No patient harm was reported.Nihon kohden technician advised the bme that it seems like the cpu tower is not getting past the bios stage of the bootup stage.Nk technician recommended that the bme send the unit into nihon kohden repair center for repair and provided the bme with a return material authorization to return it.Evaluation summary: on (b)(6) 2024 pu-681ra sn (b)(6) was received at nihon kohden repair center (nkrc) and the unit was cleaned and decontaminated, no physical damage or fluid intrusion found in the unit.Unit was tested for the reported complaint of device randomly shutting down and issue was duplicated.Nkrc replaced two hard disc drives in the device tested per operator's manual for 24 hours and operates to manufacturer's specifications.Nihon kohden continues to investigate the reported event.Nihon kohden will submit a supplemental report in accordance with 21 cfr section 803.56 when additional information becomes available.The following fields contain no information (ni), as attempts to obtain the information were made, but not provided: a2 - a6.B6 - b7.D10.Attempt # 1: (b)(6) 2023 emailed the customer via microsoft outlook for all information in the ni list above: no reply was received.Attempt # 2: (b)(6) 2024 emailed the customer via microsoft outlook for all information in the ni list above: reply was received from biomed who stated "fortunately we did not have anyone on the monitoring system at the time it went down".He did not provide any further information requested information.
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(b)(6) reported that the central nurse's station (cns) randomly shut down on its own.(b)(6) tried to boot up the cns with one hard drive at a time and just heard the internal fan blowing at full speed but still did not see any video being displayed.Bme stated that these cns monitors are directly connected to the cpu tower.Biomed swapped out to another monitor and still no video display from the monitor, he also tried one monitor being plugged in, but the issue persisted.No patient harm was reported.Nihon kohden technician advised the bme that it seems like the cpu tower is not getting past the bios stage of the bootup stage.Nk technician recommended that the bme send the unit into nihon kohden repair center for repair and provided the bme with a return material authorization to return it.
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