Aldo Foot wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:19 PM, David Liguori
<liguorid(a)albany.edu> wrote:
> ..... You say the room is well-ventilated but
> that doesn't rule out too high an ambient temperature in a room full of
> equipment, especially if it was sitting on top of or in a rack full of other
> equipment. .....
>
Alright... where did you put that webcam. :-)
You're correct. The ambient temp may be an issue, but only if I keep the
door wide open. The switch was placed on top of the server, but the
server has plenty of ventilation. I'll take a closer look at this though.
> If you're pretty sure the capacitor is what's ailing it and it's
> through-hole rather than surface mounted, I would consider it well worth
> fixing, or even trying if there's greater than a 10% success probability.
> Many 8-port switches aren't worth fixing below that.
>
Yeah. It was the cap. It was blown from the top. The rest appeared to
be alright... and for that reason I'm reluctant to just toss it out.
~af
It seems to be common problem with those netgear 8-port switches. I had
one 8-port netgear wall mounted and it broke. When I opened it it was
clean and fine except one of the capacitors was bulging littlebit. It's
still under garantee, but haven't had time to take it in there. What I
read from net it's type problem. Saw quite many stories of people fixing
it by changing that cap. Too bad. I really liked the steel box and all.
-VPK