On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:48:36 -0400 Andrew Atrens <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Thanks to all that replied. I saw that overheating issue, but since the start I had it cool using a pci slot blower. I was not icy cold, but not hot as it would be if there was no air expelling strategy. Funny or not, I was installing a Heatsink on the metal plate when it died. I will read about uManager, but I think this board will sleep deep for the next couple of months. And now I thank God soekris cancelled the 6801 board, cause I was about to pre-order one last year when I went to the US. If anyone knows a replacement for it, please share. Its my home router, so can't be too pricy. If the net5501 dies the same way, I will order APU2 from pcengines and hope for the best. Does it have bat reputation on dying as well? thanks, matheus -- "We will call you Cygnus, the God of balance you shall be." _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
