Watchguard Firebox M400/M500
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@stephenw10 Just changing the permissions of the file resolved the issue. I set the CPU fan to 5 instead of 14 as you had done, and it initially lowered the fan speed, but it's been ramping up and down even though the interface temp values are reporting that it's only getting to 35C. Is this normal?
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Yes the actual fan speed should vary with temperature. The value you set there is the minimum fan speed, the actual speed is determined by the minimum plus a value proportional to the CPU temp above a minimum temp value.
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I'm running into the weirdest issue. I've been super happy with the M400 that I upgraded the BIOS and installed 2.6 on so I decided to do the same for my backup M400. Both M400s have i3-4130T CPUs.
Updated the BIOS, used Rufus to install the 2.6 image to CF... but I'm stuck in the installer where it partitions the CF.
I selected EUFI, then GPT... but I keep getting an error. "File exists. geom 'ada0'". I can't get past this to do the install.
Would you happen to have any pointers on how to get past this?
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You can't install to the CF card if you wrote the installer image to the CF card and booted that.
You need to boot from USB and install to CF. Or boot from CF and install to SSD etc.
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@stephenw10 That makes total sense, I’ll try that later… but somehow it worked when I did it on the first machine! Twilight Zone! Ha ha
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@stephenw10 Wow, I'm just having terrible luck this go-around.
I used Rufus to put the 2.6 image on a thumb drive. Booted off the thumb drive. Had it to install to ad0. When it was ready to reboot, I shut down and removed the thumb drive. Power back up and then get an error message that it can't find a proper boot device. It appears that it didn't format the CF to be bootable. Did I miss a step in the install somewhere?
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@eisenb11 I figured it out. I went back into the bios and looked under boot and it had a weird selection for the boot order. I changed it and it can now boot correctly.
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Mmm, been a a while but IIRC the defaults will only boot legacy from the CF and if the USB drive boots EFI it will also install as that unless you specifically set it not to. So probably a legacy/EFI issues.
But with access to the BIOS you can just change that to boot however you want.
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hello i have recently purchessed a m400 of off ebay, would anyone be able to help me update the bios, ive not really done anything like this before
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First consider that flashing the BIOS is potentially risky. Do you actually need to flash it?
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@stephenw10 it still has the bios that came with it and i want to be able to stop it from useing 40w constanly
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This is what I did: https://forum.netgate.com/post/836153
Others have done it using an external SPI programmer.
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So ive managed to get pfsense up, ive replaced the ram with 2 sticks of Kingston PC3-12800E, and changed the fans, Im looking to change the proc, could someone confirm working procs
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@MathewPope
i3-4130T + 8GB Ram without any problems. Has enough power for 1Gbit fiber in combination with pfblockerng, two subnets, tailscale, ntopng.
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Does it reboot correctly with that CPU?
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@stephenw10
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Hi all,
I thought I would finally look into upgrading the BIOS on my unit, I have FREEDOS on a CF card which is booted and the output is showing in Putty. The problem is I cannot type anything. I seem to recall I had this problem in the past either with an XTM5 or the old X750e.
The last time I just hard coded the BIOS commands and hoped for the best. Any suggestions? I did wonder if it was Putty.
Any other free Windows Terminal emulators worth trying?
Thanks
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@dlucas46 I’ve always preferred Tera Term over putty for anything involving a serial port.
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@MathewPope M400 running here with an i5-4590T and 4GB of RAM. Like some other processors swaps, this one does not reboot correctly.
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No joy with Tera Term. Same behaviour.
I am using the autoexec bat with the Bios file. Speed 9600 baud 8, 1 Parity None Flow Control Xon/Xoff
Anybody else seen this behaviour? I might try a different COM port and see if that makes any difference.
