[Soekris] net4511 and POST's steps

[Alexander Pogrebny]

Hi Bill.

Yes, unfortunate, boot sequence completely stops after this message.
This is not the power problem, because we tried lots of PSU. And we
tried power on this boards without any radio or CF cards.
We also tried to solder flash with BIOS (also 1.33) from another board
that works fine - we got the same result. So, problem is not in BIOS.
I just don't understand, why manufacturers can't tell where we should
look the problem. They should know, where the problem if POST stops at
this position.

--
Alexander Pogrebny
engineer
Unidata, Ukraine


2008/11/26 Bill Maas <bill at stsx.org>:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> does the boot sequence completely stop after this message or does it go
> into an endless reboot sequence?. In the latter case you may need a more
> powerful PSU.
>
> I had a similar problem recently with a net5501 and I found that while
> its nominal power usage with a [more or less] idle OS and no extra cards
> attached is 5.7W-6.3W, right after poweron there's a temporary surge
> towards almost 9W. All works well here after swichting to a 12V 1.25A
> CUI Inc. EPA-151DA-12 PSU obtained from kd85.com.
>
> Bill