Hi Conrad,
I did manage to get to uManager - that was sort of a baud issue - I'd
up'ed my baud rate to 115200 many moons ago and had forgotten about that
.. tried a number of times and finally came up with the correct
incantation of power-cycle and key presses. Used uManager to upload the
newest bios into flash, which it did. Browsed through flash and
contents seemed reasonable. Then used that bios uploaded into flash to
update the uManager itself, which incidentally also worked. So I
guess that means that flash is okay, as is the uManager. Can't say the
same for the bios or the board, though. Still same booting problems.
Apparently the hardware turns on the RED led and the bios turns it off
once it's ready launch the OS. I'm guessing something in the bios's
board bring up sequence is getting stuck - maybe it resets a device and
then polls a register forever or somesuch. - just a wild guess. Since
there's no sign of any kind of messages on the console I'm guessing it's
getting stuck (presumably waiting for unresponsive hardware) almost
straightaway.
Let me know how your RMA goes - no sense in both of us paying for
shipping if it's a lost cause. :)
In the meantime I wouldn't suggest anyone with a production system
net6501 reboot it without having a ready spare. :)
--Andrew
On 2015-01-09 2:39 PM, Conrad Kostecki wrote:
I’ve visually inspected the board and the caps all look good.
In fact the board, living as it has in a soekris case looks brand new.
Apparently my net6501 also died today. I wanted it to reboot due a software
update too.
No its dead. uManager with +++ isn't working and Error LED does not go off.
My caps and the board itself are all looking good.
So, maybe this is a faulty batch? My net6501 was also about 04/2012 purchased.
I will try to RMA this at Soekris.
Conrad
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