Ben
PS - I assume all the equipment has been at room temperature, inside your house, and has not varied in humidity much? We just had an onset of dampness fwiw...
Also: I s'pose you wouldn't mentioned it, if anything smelled toasted?
Bob Miller wrote the following on 3/22/2005 9:08 AM:
The oldest of my SliMP3 devices stopped working today. I attached it directly to a network sniffer and it looks like it isn't sending any packets, so it can't get through DHCP discovery. There is an LED that lights up when the network cable is plugged in, so it's at least sensing Ethernet carrier. There's another LED that blinks when it receives a packet from the server.
Just before it stopped working, I was unplugging and replugging it repeatedly while debugging a server upgrade. The motherboard flexed each time I did that, and I may have broken a trace.
Several of you have a lot more experience coaxing life out of old flaky hardware than I do. What should I be trying?
Thanks...
I've tried: three different network cables. plugging directly into a hub rather than going through the house wiring. different slimp3 on same cables. (it works) other DHCP clients w/ same DHCP server. (they work) using manual IP address instead of DHCP. (still no packets sniffed) cursing. (satisfying but ineffective)
So I really think it's a broken Ethernet transmitter.
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