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Anonymous Posted on Dec 23, 2009

All lights are flashing .. cannot seem to get it to operate properly ... the water is full ... but all buttons are flashing (i.e. off/on, two cup, one cup, steam and blue water light .. any thoughts of what may be wrong?

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Sounds like you need to prime it. if the water tank is full, then there's no water in the espresso machine. even after we followed the directions in the manual for priming the sirena, we still couldn't get the water to go from the reservoir in the back into the machine.

johnshami had this solution on another post, and it worked for us:

  1. make sure the water in the tank is stone cold -- which is a no brainer since it will not heat h2o unless it's primed.
  2. take off steamer wand cover, turn the steamer knob clockwise till pump starts.
  3. then s*ck (as you would on a straw, with your lips sealed around the end of the steamer wand) the tip of the end of the metal tip hard until pump stops
  4. may need to do it a couple of times. yes this seems crazy, but it works! you are flushing out the vapor lock in the pump.

Testimonial: "Excellent advice ... glad that the machine is working properly again ... thanks "

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This worked for me too -- it's true that you have to **** REALLY hard and also I had to do it about 7 or 8 times.

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