Some more information I just noticed: when locked in this state, even the reset pinhole has no effect.
Regards Gaetan On 19-nov.-07, at 14:10, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > Am Montag, 19. November 2007 13:19:58 schrieb Gaëtan Minet: >> I just received a new net5501-70 with the "official" case and power >> supply, and I experience what looks like time-related startup >> problems. >> >> Indeed, each time I plug the power in _after the unit has been >> powered >> off for more than 10 seconds_ , the power and error leds stay on >> forever and the system seems completely freezed (+ the third ide led >> if a CF is plugged in). Nothing appears on the serial port, I don't >> even see the POST messages, memory count, pci list, ... >> If I then unplug and plug again the psu "quickly" (in less than ~10 >> seconds), it usually starts correctly. > > Just for my 5 cents, I have also experienced exactly the same > "problem" with > my 5501-70, i.e. having to replug the power supply to get it to > boot. For me, > the three leftmost leds on the case are always on when it fails to > boot > (Power, Error and Disk, but I haven't checked yet whether there's > any output > to the serial console or not in this state), and I have a CF-card > and a > Mini-PCI adapter on the board, so it's not really "barebones" anymore. > > I haven't looked deeper into this or actually registered it as a > "problem" > (because I'm not deploying the box yet, and thought that this > failure to boot > was due to "user-error"), but if this really is an issue with the > board, or > there is some fix to get it to boot always, I'd be glad if the infos > could be > exchanged on the mailing list. > > -- > Heiko Wundram > Product & Application Development _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
