Hi I have shipped in 4 boards with the exact same issue to soekris in Denmark last week. And I have one more lying around with the error. Some of our clients have seen this issue, where it suddenly stopped working, and could then not boot back up. We have spend a lot of time to go out and fix at random times, and replace the boards. Sometimes after they have been turned off for a while they will boot again, but then right after a power cycle, go dead again. So I had gathered a few from our installations, and where beginning to become a big problems as more of them die.
While they have this issue, it can normally also see the Ethernet diodes flash randomly at low power. They all have similar serial number, and have the black heatsink that is just a flat plate. Regards Martin Dahlem ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:59:20 -0500 From: Andrew Atrens <[email protected]> To: Conrad Kostecki <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: [Soekris] net6501 error led / no console / doesn't boot Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed 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 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
