SG-1100 Rebooting
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Please open a ticket at https://go.netgate.com/
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This issue seems to be appearing a lot:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/143952/new-sg-1100-reboots-several-times-a-day
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/140425/random-sg-1100-reboot
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/140974/sg-1100-reboots-several-times-a-dayMy first unit had this issue and Netgate sent me a replacement. After running reliably for a month the second unit then developed the same problem. Thought it might be a bad power adapter so tried replacing that with no success. It's looking like RMA #2 will happen soon.
Netgate support has been stellar (and sympathetic).
-Doug
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Any special about the environment? Very hot?
-Rico
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@Rico
The environment is ideal: in a cool dry basement on a shelf that never gets sunlight. -
Mine is in an air conditioned office, on test along side an APU4, sharing the same power supply. I've re-imaged and reloaded the config.
Still randomly reboots daily or more -
My personal opinion is these small form factor devices (from any manufacturer) have a little trouble adequately dissipating heat with the limited passive cooling afforded by their reduced heat sink surface area. I'm thinking it ultimately impacts a marginal capacitor or two on the board and you then get random issues. Could also pose a problem for a memory chip or a driver chip that was say marginal to begin with and then the heat pushes it over the edge sometimes.
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Mine has died after less than a week in use :-( Does not boot and the only thing I get on the console is:
It then sometimes comes back to life if I leave it for half an hour or so, then reboots and goes through all this again.
When it first started to play up the box was extremely hot.
Having to return it, sadly.
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Took mine out of service yesterday afternoon and left it powered down over night. Started it cold this morning and it took 3 tries before it made it all the way through a boot cycle.
So then I halted the O/S but left the power on. 15 min later it “rebooted” from a halted state.
Looks like the board is toast.
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According to the UK resser the SG-1100 has a high failure count :-( It's a really good device, but perhaps has a heat issue? Something that may be fixable with a redesign.
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https://forum.netgate.com/topic/144636/sg-1100-intermittent-reboots
