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Subject: SV: [AN1x] AN1x Continually Rebooting - Heat Problem?

From: "James Acker" <jacker@...>
Date: 2002-12-17

Cool,

Keep us posted, because this is of interest probably to most of us, at least the ones that tried to give advice!

Good luck

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Silvester <sly@...>
To: <AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [AN1x] AN1x Continually Rebooting - Heat Problem?


> Monday, December 16, 2002, 14:52:45, James Acker wrote:
>
> JA> I kinda wish people that posted with a problem and get many
> JA> responses would at least post back with results (if any)....but
> JA> that's the way it goes I guess.
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for your help so far. I've been really busy in the last few
> days, so haven't had any time to open up the AN1x and see if there's a
> lot of dust inside. I might get time this week, but I'm doing some
> freelance work at the moment, and it's taking up a lot of time (and my
> girlfriend is taking up the rest of it)!
>
> I have (and have always used) the standard power supply that came with
> my AN1x when I bought it.
>
> I don't have the necessary equipment to test the power supply here, so
> I'll have to wait until I go home for christmas (my dad has some testing
> equipment that I can probably use).
>
> I'm still fairly sure it's a heat-related problem (just because of the
> way it takes time before the first reboot happens, but then reboots
> continually until I turn it off for half an hour or so). This still
> seems (to me) that it's a heat related problem, otherwise why does the
> AN1x not reboot until it has been switched on for a little while, and
> why does it continually reboot until it is switched off?
>
> Actually, I just remembered that before the rebooting problem happened,
> the first thing I noticed wrong was that the sound from the right
> channel seemed to have gone completely. Further checking revealed that
> it was there, but very faintly and distorted. I thought it might be the
> audio cable, so I tried everything I could think of to check that
> (different cable, different mixer channel, etc). The sound was fine
> from the headphone jack, but was not working properly from the main
> outputs. Anyway, a factory reset seemed to sort things out (but maybe it
> was because I switched it off for a while too?) so I didn't worry about
> it any more. This was just a few days before the rebooting started, and
> I had almost forgotten about it.
>
> Sorry I didn't reply sooner - I've just been trying to find enough time
> to open up the AN1x, but it never came about. I'll get back to you as
> soon as I manage to solve the problem (or get stuck again)!
>
> Cheers for your help so far, and if I do end up having to put a heatsink
> on the AN1x, I'll document it online somewhere.
>
> ~Dave
>
> --
>
> Dave Silvester
> Music Technology Junkie
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