Hopefully RMA'd boards will help Soekris folks analyse what's gone wrong
with the hardware and whether it can be worked around via BIOS update.
Since the devices don't show any warning symptoms (are running normally)
and the boot failures for some at least are initially intermittent,
there's a small chance there might be a different power on sequence that
the bios could implement to resusitate these boards. Relatedly, it might
be the power on sequence that the BIOS is employing that is frying
components and as such a newer, gentler start up might be able to
preserve existing boards.
Would be nice if someone on the soekris side could provide an update as
to what their current thinking is / what they advise customers should
do. Should we all RMA our dead net6501 boards straightaway? What's
the advice/plan?
Best Regards,
--Andrew
On 2015-01-13 10:58 AM, Kyle Brantley wrote:
On 1/13/2015 8:10 AM, Jherek Carnelian wrote:
Can that be caused by the power plugs or something?
I had a net6501 die on me just recently, but it's been in the Soekris
provided 1U rackmount (and in turn, power supply), connected to a UPS.
I know that this doesn't necessarily prove anything, but I can't think
of anything else I could have done to ensure proper power to the device.
Can I check if this is a hardware problem? Any ideas anyone?
The sound of the thread so far indicates that your only real recourse
is an RMA, which is likely what I'll be doing shortly...
--Kyle
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