Re: Dying net6501 servers

> I bought 5 net6501-70 servers

> They were mostly flawless for that time, but over the last few months 3 
> of them have died with the red error light and no BIOS post information.

 > I have OpenBSD on a net6501 which was working fine, however after the
 > last reboot it shows a constant red "error" light and sporadically
 > rapidly blinks all the eth0-eth3 lights.

 > I just had a net6501 die on me the past weekend, purchased in 2012.

 > I had the exact same symptoms on several of mine.  After trying new
 > power supplies, which didn’t help, I sent them back and they were
 > diagnosed as unrepairable.

 > Lost one a couple of weeks ago.
 > Three years or so of service sounds about right.

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 From random Soekris press materials:

Like previous Soekris models, the  lan1841 is made in the USA, and is
designed for long life, with a 3 Year Warranty. /.../ Soekris 
Engineering, Inc. has been proudly designing and manufacturing reliable, 
  robust, superior quality communications computers for over 11 years. 
Soekris stands  behind  its reputation of providing customers with  a 
stable hardware platform.

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http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-May/008371.html

Let's see, how Soekris stands behind its products. So far those 
wonderboards are like (chinese) box of candies, you never know what you 
get.

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=<Alvar>=
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