Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
Hello Eivind, On 18/12/13 00:02, Eivind Eide wrote: I use the same power supply with the new board as with the old. The new board works fine. With the old I also tried some other power supplies. Same result. Whatever problem I encountered then I am inclined to believe had nothing to do with the power supply. Did the same tests with other power supplies, without any luck either. Got a replacement board fast enough. Funny fact : the two boards that did fail (last july for the first, last week for the second) were quite close (30-something apart) wrt serial numbers. Maybe some problematic batch ? Some other member on this list posted recently about a similar problem. He had been able to start the machine via uManager (entering +++ on keyboard). I never tried this with the problematic board. Maybe worth looking into...? I hope we will not have another failing board - but then, if we remember this trick, we will try it. Sincerely, -- Mbdr ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
I use the same power supply with the new board as with the old. The new board works fine. With the old I also tried some other power supplies. Same result. Whatever problem I encountered then I am inclined to believe had nothing to do with the power supply. Some other member on this list posted recently about a similar problem. He had been able to start the machine via uManager (entering +++ on keyboard). I never tried this with the problematic board. Maybe worth looking into...? 2013/12/10 Robert Sexton rob...@kudra.com: This question comes up often. Its usually the power supply. - Robert On 12/10/13 8:19 AM, Embedding Linux wrote: Hello, -- Eivind Eide ONLY THOSE WHO ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL ACHIEVE THE ABSURD - Oceania Association of Autonomous Astronauts ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
Hello, On 18/09/13 14:34, Eivind Eide wrote: 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. I've got exactly this same problem on one of my box (except the four interface leds never stop flashing like crazies, even without any attached cable). Second time a net6501 dies on us, with exactly the same symptoms. Is there some reliability problem on those motherboards ? Sincerely, -- Mbdr ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
This question comes up often. Its usually the power supply. - Robert On 12/10/13 8:19 AM, Embedding Linux wrote: Hello, On 18/09/13 14:34, Eivind Eide wrote: 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. I've got exactly this same problem on one of my box (except the four interface leds never stop flashing like crazies, even without any attached cable). Second time a net6501 dies on us, with exactly the same symptoms. Is there some reliability problem on those motherboards ? Sincerely, ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
C Sent from my Windows Phone From: Eivind Eide Sent: 10/30/2013 9:48 PM To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore After consulting with Soekris Europe I sent the board back to them. Package got stuck in danish customs for quite some time for reasons I still don't understand, but eventually this was solved and the package got to it's destination. The reply fron Soekris Europe was that they had not found any fault on my board, but since I had throughly tested it they would replace it with a new board anyway. Couple of days later I have the new board and it just works fine. So I still have no explanation on what happened, but my Soekris is back doing it's job 2013/9/18 Nikola Gyurov ngyu...@gmail.com: This is not good, as I'm planning to build a whole private e-mail environment, based on Soekris. Could you guys update the thread if you hear back from them regarding this? Best regards, Nikola Gyurov On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Embedding Linux embed...@ba-cst.net wrote: Hi, On 18/09/13 17:32, Eivind Eide wrote: I removed everything but the board (putting it on a wooden table) and also tried another power supply. Same result. Anything else? Time to contact Soekris Europe...? [...] 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. [...] 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... We've had exactly the same problem a few months ago : suddenly, a 6501-50 utterly failed to start. Changint power supply didnot solve the problem. We replaced the motherboard with a new one (everything was under warranty). The failed board was sent back to the seller, we asked for some kind of feedback (to know if we should be wary of this kind of failures, since we bought several 6501) but got none up to now. -- Mbdr ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Eivind Eide ONLY THOSE WHO ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL ACHIEVE THE ABSURD - Oceania Association of Autonomous Astronauts ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
After consulting with Soekris Europe I sent the board back to them. Package got stuck in danish customs for quite some time for reasons I still don't understand, but eventually this was solved and the package got to it's destination. The reply fron Soekris Europe was that they had not found any fault on my board, but since I had throughly tested it they would replace it with a new board anyway. Couple of days later I have the new board and it just works fine. So I still have no explanation on what happened, but my Soekris is back doing it's job 2013/9/18 Nikola Gyurov ngyu...@gmail.com: This is not good, as I'm planning to build a whole private e-mail environment, based on Soekris. Could you guys update the thread if you hear back from them regarding this? Best regards, Nikola Gyurov On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Embedding Linux embed...@ba-cst.net wrote: Hi, On 18/09/13 17:32, Eivind Eide wrote: I removed everything but the board (putting it on a wooden table) and also tried another power supply. Same result. Anything else? Time to contact Soekris Europe...? [...] 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. [...] 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... We've had exactly the same problem a few months ago : suddenly, a 6501-50 utterly failed to start. Changint power supply didnot solve the problem. We replaced the motherboard with a new one (everything was under warranty). The failed board was sent back to the seller, we asked for some kind of feedback (to know if we should be wary of this kind of failures, since we bought several 6501) but got none up to now. -- Mbdr ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Eivind Eide ONLY THOSE WHO ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL ACHIEVE THE ABSURD - Oceania Association of Autonomous Astronauts ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
I removed everything but the board (putting it on a wooden table) and also tried another power supply. Same result. Anything else? Time to contact Soekris Europe...? 2013/9/18 Ryan McIntosh rmcint...@nitemare.net: 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... -- Eivind Eide ONLY THOSE WHO ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL ACHIEVE THE ABSURD - Oceania Association of Autonomous Astronauts ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Eivind Eide ONLY THOSE WHO ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL ACHIEVE THE ABSURD - Oceania Association of Autonomous Astronauts ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
Eivind Eide [xeno...@gmail.com] wrote: I removed everything but the board (putting it on a wooden table) and also tried another power supply. Same result. Anything else? Time to contact Soekris Europe...? Sounds like the same problems the net5501 had that the ALIX didn't. Luckily there's pcengines.ch/apu.htm ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
Hi, On 18/09/13 17:32, Eivind Eide wrote: I removed everything but the board (putting it on a wooden table) and also tried another power supply. Same result. Anything else? Time to contact Soekris Europe...? [...] 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. [...] 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... We've had exactly the same problem a few months ago : suddenly, a 6501-50 utterly failed to start. Changint power supply didnot solve the problem. We replaced the motherboard with a new one (everything was under warranty). The failed board was sent back to the seller, we asked for some kind of feedback (to know if we should be wary of this kind of failures, since we bought several 6501) but got none up to now. -- Mbdr ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
This is not good, as I'm planning to build a whole private e-mail environment, based on Soekris. Could you guys update the thread if you hear back from them regarding this? Best regards, Nikola Gyurov On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Embedding Linux embed...@ba-cst.net wrote: Hi, On 18/09/13 17:32, Eivind Eide wrote: I removed everything but the board (putting it on a wooden table) and also tried another power supply. Same result. Anything else? Time to contact Soekris Europe...? [...] 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. [...] 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... We've had exactly the same problem a few months ago : suddenly, a 6501-50 utterly failed to start. Changint power supply didnot solve the problem. We replaced the motherboard with a new one (everything was under warranty). The failed board was sent back to the seller, we asked for some kind of feedback (to know if we should be wary of this kind of failures, since we bought several 6501) but got none up to now. -- Mbdr ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
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... -- Eivind Eide ONLY THOSE WHO ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL ACHIEVE THE ABSURD - Oceania Association of Autonomous Astronauts ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
