"Blinking lights of death" ? Netgear Switch GS108

Seann Clark nombrandue at tsukinokage.net
Thu Apr 30 01:18:02 UTC 2009


Aldo Foot wrote:
> I have this Netgear Switch GS108 that has apparently failed. Before I
> buy a new one I'd
> like to know whether this is known issue with this type of unit or
> Netgear hardware in
> general.  This unit I have is an 8-port switch.
> I perused some reading here and there and they point out to faulty
> capacitors in the
> unit. The fault causes what they call "Blinking lights of death", that
> is, all lights blink on
> and off repeatedly. Unplugging the unit and plugging it back in unit
> does nothing.
>
> Any network hardware experts know about this?
>
> TIA,
> ~af
>
>   
The only way to be sure it is capacitor plague is to gut the unit and 
look at the PC board. If you look at the capacitors in it, and one or 
two are slightly bulged, or have black stuff that looks to be leaking 
from the bottoms, the device is dead, and should be replaced, unless you 
are the hacky type and change out the cap's or harvest the good parts 
off the corpse of the old switch.


~Seann
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