[Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore

2013-09-17 Thread Eivind Eide
I purchased a net 6501-30 autumn 2011 from Soekris Europe. It's been
working nicely for me after bios with usb boot code was in place.
I'm running ComBIOS 1.41c and boot OpenBSD from a low profile USB stick.

However this is not a boot problem, it's a board start problem.
Some time ago, after power recycling, which always went well before, the
box didn't boot up and only the green power led and the red error led
was lit. I then tried to press the reset button and the box continued to
boot as normally. Because of occasional need for power cycling this
happened a couple more times, then the other day after power cycling it
wouldn't start anymore at all. And now pressing the reset button does
nothing, except the four interface leds flash a fragment of a moment,
and then back to only green power led and red error led lit.

It stops before ComBIOS, there are no output to the serial console
whatsoever (and I have had no problems getting the serial console to
work before, so that's not it). So no disk problem  or such, the box
don't even get to POST.

Where do I proceed from here? Any thoughts? Grateful for any ideas...


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Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore

2013-09-17 Thread Ryan McIntosh
Try a different power supply first, they generally take a beating, followed
by removing any peripherals (drives and cards) to see of you can get it to
post. If you can't get anything after that then someone here can probably
run you through further diagnostics if there's anything else that can be
done before talking to soekris about a broken board.

Ryan
On Sep 17, 2013 6:07 PM, Eivind Eide xeno...@gmail.com wrote:


 I purchased a net 6501-30 autumn 2011 from Soekris Europe. It's been
 working nicely for me after bios with usb boot code was in place.
 I'm running ComBIOS 1.41c and boot OpenBSD from a low profile USB stick.

 However this is not a boot problem, it's a board start problem.
 Some time ago, after power recycling, which always went well before, the
 box didn't boot up and only the green power led and the red error led
 was lit. I then tried to press the reset button and the box continued to
 boot as normally. Because of occasional need for power cycling this
 happened a couple more times, then the other day after power cycling it
 wouldn't start anymore at all. And now pressing the reset button does
 nothing, except the four interface leds flash a fragment of a moment,
 and then back to only green power led and red error led lit.

 It stops before ComBIOS, there are no output to the serial console
 whatsoever (and I have had no problems getting the serial console to
 work before, so that's not it). So no disk problem  or such, the box
 don't even get to POST.

 Where do I proceed from here? Any thoughts? Grateful for any ideas...


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 Eivind Eide

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 - Oceania Association of Autonomous Astronauts

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