[Soekris] net5501-70: 2 of 4 devices are broken

[Rhys Frederick]

Hi Frederic,

what your describing looks supsiciously like the problems I was
experiencing with 2 new 5501-70 boxes i recently received. Like you
(and depending upon the console tool), 9 times out of 10 all I would
see was the same single character on the console.

I swapped the power supplies with higher voltage ones (from 12V 2A to
13.5V 1.8A) non switch-mode and so far so good.

Hope this helps.


cheers,

rhys

On 17/06/2008, Frédéric VANNIÈRE <f.vanniere at planet-work.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> Marie Koreen a écrit :
> > What do the cards ID themselves as when you boot these boxes?  I only
> > ask because depending on where you got the "sandisk" CF cards, they
> > might be fake.  China is trying to pass off a lot of fakes as extreme
> > III and extreme IV cards.  I got a fake myself, but you can tell because
> > the card will ID itself as a Sandisk card in the bios detection.  The
> > fake I had ID'd itself as "SMI MODEL" instead of "Sandisk ####"
> > whatever.  And it would have all kinds of booting issues.  I went to a
> > store and bought a real one and have had absolutely no problems since.
> >
>
> The CF are real SanDisk, when the boot fails the only thing I see
> on the console is a sort of 'À' and nothing else.
>
> I've first tried Kingston CF but they didn't work well.
>
> Frédéric
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