[Soekris] net5501 bricked, need insight on what happened

[Andrea Gronchi]

Hi,
I've been experimenting with a net5501 board for some days.

The board run Linux (2.6.36) and worked quite nicely botting from PXE+NFS and CF.
This same board also spent some time running as a test firewall appliance, without apparent problems.

After a clean hard reboot (correct system shutdown followed by power supply disconnection), the board stopped working:
- no POST with CF inserted,
- no POST with SATA drive connected.
- no POST even with a clean, unconnected board.

Other than the power led on, the only recognizable sign of activity is the "error" led, which happens to stay on for the first 6-8 seconds after powering on.

I'd like to have some insight in this specific condition, possible fixes and what is causing this.

Thank you in advance.

Andrea.

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	Andrea Gronchi
	agronchi at smrobotica.it