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RBS850 Stuck in loop / flashing white
Hi all,
My RBS850 satelite seems to have bricked itself. It will just continually flash white when on. I've tried the 30/30/30 and variants of that many times. After browsing everything I could find, I got myself a USB serial adapter and used putty to login to the system.
As I suspected, the router just reboots itself over and over. I was able to interrupt the boot and run the fwupdate command, loading the latest version from my PC over TFTP. I'm able to watch it successfully do this in putty, as well as have it confirmed in the TFTP client.
However, this has not stopped the behavior. I've done again the 30/30/30, powered off, left on for a long time. It just continually follows this boot pattern in a loop.
I've spent a ton of time looking at the putty log and I just don't know enough about this stuff to be able to discern what's going wrong from it. I've linked a log that shows me booting and performing the firmware flashing process described above, followed by it going through one loop of the booting. If anyone can understand what the problem is from this and have any suggestions to try, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks!
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After all that and the unit continues this, you'll need to replace the RBS unit.
Consider trying a different power adapter? If you have a spare satellite or even the routers power supply.
You might also try hardwiring it into the router and walking away for a bit after connecting them. Strangely I had one that was on a white boot loop and it corrected itself after hardwiring it into the primary router and walking away. (they were on same firmware versions)
