In today’s article I’ll walk you through resetting your PanelView Plus 7 to Factory Defaults:
Step 1) Plug a USB Keyboard into your PanelView Plus 7:
Step 2) Cycle Power to your PanelView Plus 7 while holding down the F1 Key:
Step 3) When the Maintenance Menu comes up, press the down arrow key once to select “Special BOOT Option – None”
Step 4) Now press the right key until you see “Special BOOT Option – Factory Defaults”
Step 5) Now press the up arrow key to select “Reboot With Selected Options” and press enter:
Step 6) At this point your PanelView Plus 7 will reboot and reload the default firmware it came with, which in this case was 7.0:
Step 7) This also reset the units desktop access password back to the default password of “password”
To watch a video demonstration of the above, check out Episode 38 of The Automation Minute Season 4 below:
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Ah, yes – that is all in the manual!
PanelView Plus 7 Performance Terminals User Manual, 2711P-UM008J-EN-P, Published on Apr 4, 2022, https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/2711p-um008_-en-p.pdf
PanelView Plus 7 Standard Terminals User Manual, 2711P-UM007I-EN-P, Published on Mar 31, 2023, https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/2711p-um007_-en-p.pdf
Best of luck and Happy Holidays!
Shawn