My Squeezebox was knocked off the table, but was caught before hitting
the floor by the tension of the power cable.  At first I was quite
concerned, because the unit would not power up.  When I fiddled with
the connector, it would flash, so I had some hope of an easy fix.  I
opened up the case, and immediately noticed that the power jack had
come loose from its SMD pads on the one side.  I pulled out my
soldering iron, and fixed it up, adding a bit more solder for future
strength.

Now it powered up fine, but had forgotten its network settings.  I
reset everything as before, and was somewhat surprised that the prior
playlist was forgotten.  I checked the Slimserver, and discovered that
the SB had a different MAC address.  It used to be 04:20:05:A0:D3 (as
written on the bottom of the device and remembered by Slimserver), but
now it was 04:20:FF:FF:01!

Could it be that an EEPROM some such component was cleared by the
frequent power flashes that would have occurred with the bad
connection?  Or is this a symptom of a bigger problem?  Am I safe to
continue using it as-is?

-=> Mike Hanson <=-


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Mike Hanson
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