ATM's go down nationwide

Villain · 02-02-2005 12:49AM #1

Not sure where to stick this thread, mods feel free to move.

I tried 6 ATMS in Maynooth tonight and all of them failed to give cash to me or any other customer, I called my bank (AIB) and they stated that ATM's in th country were down and there was no ETA. Seems a bit weird that all banks ATM's rely on the one system!

Red Alert · 02-02-2005 10:07AM

AIB's system isn't too bad actually. I'm with BOI and i only found out recently that many of their ATM's run Windows 95 and Win 98 :eek:

king_of_inismac · 02-02-2005 10:12AM

I'm with BOI and i only found out recently that many of their ATM's run Windows 95 and Win 98

I very much doubt that this is the case...

Villain · 02-02-2005 10:20AM

I dont see why not, win 95 would be more stable and needs very little patching.

BTW just to clarify, last night ALL ATMS went down, i.e all banks.

WizZard · 02-02-2005 10:30AM

Bank of Ireland ATM's ran NT4 when I lasted checked, and that was ~2 years ago. I doubt they have changed much.
Win95 is not stable

seamus · 02-02-2005 10:31AM

irish1 wrote:

I dont see why not, win 95 would be more stable and needs very little patching.

Riiiiiiight....

Most of them run NT4.

BTW just to clarify, last night ALL ATMS went down, i.e all banks.

There was some issue with credit cards yesterday. Guy in the shop told me they could take cash only cos all the credit card facilities were down, everywhere (i.e. not just in their shop). Dunno how right he was though.

Terrier · 02-02-2005 10:50AM

I'm a BOI customer, I could not get money out of an AIB ATM (tried 3) last night but did manage to get it from a BOI ATM..

BOI are in the process of updating the system, was involved in packaging ATM software for XP deployment the only reason they are even changing OS is due to MS not supporting these OS.

aodh_rua · 02-02-2005 11:40AM

Was there anything on the news about this? Seems a pretty major thing to happen without someone high-up calling attention.

BolBill · 02-02-2005 12:04PM

You fools , BOI and AIB are complete shiiiiiiiite

cajun_tiger · 02-02-2005 12:14PM

hey there...
last night i went to atm 1 and my mate went to atm 2 both at same time chatting to each other.
i got cash she didn't then. we carried on trying to find one. the inshop ones were working but only giving 50's so i went to an atm which she just tried and gave her 40 she then tried it and it would give her money the next two people got nothing but the one after did....

all people who got it where...

bank of ireland cutsomers

Chalk · 02-02-2005 12:18PM

is there a news report on this?

Hobbes · 02-02-2005 12:19PM

Saw long queue this morning outside the BOI coolock. Both of the ATMs were not working. Got my cash from the Ulster bank fine.

seamus · 02-02-2005 12:21PM

BOI customer here, got my cash from an Ulster bank machine yesterday around 6.30, no probs.

Villain · 02-02-2005 12:54PM

Problem started around 7pm.

uberwolf · 02-02-2005 01:00PM

I went to get a pizza and ATM was down, tried to pay by credit card to no avail. So I had to return later with the money

cajun_tiger · 02-02-2005 01:03PM

ye i was out of work then.. but was getting cash up till about 8, my mate didn't. i got it out of an ulster atm

Mr E · 02-02-2005 01:10PM

Only AIB ATMs were affected.

Villain · 02-02-2005 01:12PM

TmB wrote:

Only AIB ATMs were affected.

Nope thats not correct, I tried several ATM's with my AIB card and it didn't work and several other non-AIB customers were also unable to withdraw cash. Others in work said they were unable to use their credit cards at the time either.

billy the squid · 03-02-2005 12:17AM

with ulster bank havent had any problems. have used TSB machines to take out money last night and Bank of ireland machine today where something strange happened.

asked machine for fifteen euros, it said it couldnt give it out in that multiple. so i typed in €10 and it gave me ten euro in two fivers.

strange.

Nietzschean · 03-02-2005 12:22AM

irish1 wrote:

Nope thats not correct, I tried several ATM's with my AIB card and it didn't work and several other non-AIB customers were also unable to withdraw cash. Others in work said they were unable to use their credit cards at the time either.

that could still just be AIB's systems though, your card has to be verified off AIB in order to work in any other banks atm i would imagine......

Nietzschean · 03-02-2005 12:25AM

billy the squid wrote:

asked machine for fifteen euros, it said it couldnt give it out in that multiple. so i typed in €10 and it gave me ten euro in two fivers.

maybe it only had 2 €5 notes left and no €10 notes?

kdouglas · 03-02-2005 01:25AM

where is this wonderful machine which gives out €5 notes? personally, as a student, i hate having to take out €10 or sometimes €20 when i only need €5 for lunch.

i went to three different atm's the other day before finding one that worked.

03-02-2005 01:30AM

Re: Windows 95 & Windows 98 on ATM machines..

I've often walked up to a machine and seen a dreaded BSOD (blue screen of death - error msg for the non-techy)..

Mossy Monk · 03-02-2005 02:07AM

AIB, BOI, TSB or Ulster wouldnt work for me last night, or the Ulster Bank customers who couldnt get money also. highly annoying

they were working fine at half time so crisis was averted

azezil · 03-02-2005 03:21AM

Interesting, almost all Eircom's server went down today too... around 12pm people all over the country reporting 691 and 676 error's. I was called out of training to help dead with the onslaught of calls!

Was only logged in for 30mins, took 20 calls!

seamus · 03-02-2005 10:41AM

ciaranfo wrote:

Re: Windows 95 & Windows 98 on ATM machines..

I've often walked up to a machine and seen a dreaded BSOD (blue screen of death - error msg for the non-techy)..

NT4 is known to BSOD too

skywalker · 03-02-2005 10:57AM

billy the squid wrote:

with ulster bank havent had any problems. have used TSB machines to take out money last night and Bank of ireland machine today where something strange happened.

asked machine for fifteen euros, it said it couldnt give it out in that multiple. so i typed in €10 and it gave me ten euro in two fivers.

strange.

you can still get fivers out of atm's? :eek: :eek:

Terrier · 03-02-2005 11:19AM

skywalker wrote:

you can still get fivers out of atm's? :eek: :eek:

Students... god love them...

ATM's go down nationwide

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