On 2016-06-20 10:50 AM, ED Fochler wrote: > https://soekris.com/media/manuals/net6501_manual.pdf > > Lifetime of the battery is ~1 month, rechargeable Lithium according to > manual. CMOS is flash based, so dropping voltage from the battery shouldn’t > clear anything, just wipe out your clock. > > I don’t know why everyone jumps on the dead board problem as being an > overheating issue. It’s an unfortunate failure rate, but I am not at all > convinced that it’s temperature doing it. To be more precise, some part of the comBIOS board hardware initialization is bailing out.
It could be the network phy init - maybe reading from CMOS and then programming stuff like mac address. One interesting data point, for some leaving the device on the shelf for several months seems to rejuvenate it. After 2+ years of being dead, mine magically came back to life last week. Though I have no plans to use it, except in emergency sparing situation, to be on the safe side I did purchase an install a large heatsink from digikey. :) --Andrew _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
