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RB450 blinking

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:35 am
by manssizz
Hi... i have a trouble with my 450. power LED blinking
can't booting, beeping but bit volume and eht LED blinking too but dim. whats wrong?
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Re: RB450 blinking

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:16 am
by jebz
Well used RB450 routers had power supply electrolytic capacitors that went faulty. They could often be identified by bulging tops and/or bottoms on the effected capacitors.

Re: RB450 blinking

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:11 am
by r00t
Agree, years ago I fixed many RB450 (and RB4xx in general) by just replacing all caps. Even if they don't look bulging, it's worth a try.
Weird flashing LEDs or "dim" looking LEDs are typical symptoms.
Yours seems to be in a reset-loop, maybe because power supply just can't deliver required power for it to boot (thx to the bad caps), so voltage drops, that triggers a reset and everything repeats..

Re: RB450 blinking

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:04 pm
by manssizz
Agree, years ago I fixed many RB450 (and RB4xx in general) by just replacing all caps. Even if they don't look bulging, it's worth a try.
Weird flashing LEDs or "dim" looking LEDs are typical symptoms.
Yours seems to be in a reset-loop, maybe because power supply just can't deliver required power for it to boot (thx to the bad caps), so voltage drops, that triggers a reset and everything repeats..
so... what should i do? replacing all caps? btw caps like normally without bulging

Re: RB450 blinking

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 2:52 pm
by r00t
You can also check all power rails with multimeter if they are stable or even better with a scope (transients can be too short for a multimeter).
Usually if power supply was faulty, it would not even try to boot (if one of the voltage is just missing, CPU will do nothing at all).
Instead of removing all caps, it's also possible to quickly solder bigger caps in parallel for a test if it helps or not.
But as always, nothing is guaranteed, it may be caps or it may be something else.
But I suppose you have already tried all other options like loading backup booter and there is nothing on the rs232 console either, so it's not a classic bootloop.

Re: RB450 blinking

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:11 am
by ahteran
Short circuit