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Flex 6300 will not boot all the way
My Flex 6300 is using the latest SmartSDR 1.x release : v1.10.16.174
It has, up to this point, has never had a serious problem.
However, now it will currently NOT boot all the way. I click the power button and it starts blinking (green, I assume since I am color impaired - same color it has always shown normally). It blinks just as long as it usually does (when it was working) but at the end of the cycle it just shuts down.
I tried the factory reset option. Disconnected power for over a minute, then hooked up power supply directly (with nothing else hooked into power supply). I held the power button on until the blinking light turned to white and released the button. At the end of the cycle of white blinking it turned off. I clicked on the button again and let it run normally and at the end of the blinking (green) it turned off again.
I tried the above several times and no luck - it just shuts down at the end of the boot cycle.
The power supply can run everything else I have - it is usually connected into a power pole distribution block but for the above tests I had it directly plugged into the power supply. I also got out my trusty but rusty Tektronix digital VOM and it shows the power supply is putting out 13.8 volts.
Incidentally, I had just used the rig an hour earlier and had a QSO on 20mtr SSB. This is the first time I have a problem that was not fixable by a reboot or a factory reset.
If anybody has any other ideas on what I can try, I would like to hear them. I really really don't want to have to send it in for repairs unless I absolutely have to.
---Gary WB8ROL
It has, up to this point, has never had a serious problem.
However, now it will currently NOT boot all the way. I click the power button and it starts blinking (green, I assume since I am color impaired - same color it has always shown normally). It blinks just as long as it usually does (when it was working) but at the end of the cycle it just shuts down.
I tried the factory reset option. Disconnected power for over a minute, then hooked up power supply directly (with nothing else hooked into power supply). I held the power button on until the blinking light turned to white and released the button. At the end of the cycle of white blinking it turned off. I clicked on the button again and let it run normally and at the end of the blinking (green) it turned off again.
I tried the above several times and no luck - it just shuts down at the end of the boot cycle.
The power supply can run everything else I have - it is usually connected into a power pole distribution block but for the above tests I had it directly plugged into the power supply. I also got out my trusty but rusty Tektronix digital VOM and it shows the power supply is putting out 13.8 volts.
Incidentally, I had just used the rig an hour earlier and had a QSO on 20mtr SSB. This is the first time I have a problem that was not fixable by a reboot or a factory reset.
If anybody has any other ideas on what I can try, I would like to hear them. I really really don't want to have to send it in for repairs unless I absolutely have to.
---Gary WB8ROL
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I would open a helpdesk ticket for this.
Mike
I had to open a Help Desk ticket and then had to send it in.
Good Luck!
I wonder if going back to a different version of SmartSDR (and diff firmware) would be worth a try?
--Gary WB8ROL
---Gary WB8ROL
In the meantime I will check out the fan cleaning link and see what I can do.
Thanks again!
---Gary WB8ROL