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 Topic: One WL-500W stuck in recovery mode, the other auto-rebooting |
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 Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 19:13 Subject: One WL-500W stuck in recovery mode, the other auto-rebooting |
| Hello vinnie97, It is odd that you did not attempt to use this forum search option to find the exact issue to your problem on the following thread: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=56939 ... |
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| Topic: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 28 Views: 25263 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 23:22 Subject: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
| Problem was solved: Unreliable status of the Asus WL-500g Premium was caused by a faulty 1200uF 10v capacitor within the power brick (PSU). I have replaced the faulty PSU with a 5v 3A unit (from EBay ... |
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| Topic: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 48 Views: 122888 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 23:17 Subject: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
| Hello hawkeye, I can confirm your theory; Asus has definitely defective caps in their router PSU. Attached is a picture of my opened faulty PSU, the 1200uF 10v cap is bulged and no longer can functi ... |
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| Topic: ASUS WL500gp stopped working |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 13 Views: 9329 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:26 Subject: ASUS WL500gp stopped working |
| jussit, have you physically inspected the capacitors within the reported faulty Asus router? What is the recorded voltage from both power bricks (when connected and disconnected)? | |
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| Topic: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 48 Views: 122888 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:21 Subject: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
| The original capacitor is a 10V 1200uF Polarized Electolytic Cap. This is a filtering cap on the output side (5V). The other cap (much larger) is 400V 33uF...this is a noise filtering cap on the input ... | |
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| Topic: ASUS WL500gp stopped working |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 13 Views: 9329 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:44 Subject: ASUS WL500gp stopped working |
| What happened to my router yesterday was strange. I left it powered on, with WAN and LAN 1, 2, 3, 4 lights always on. Left it like this for about 2 hours. When I went to check if something had chang ... |
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| Topic: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 48 Views: 122888 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 23:53 Subject: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
| Hello redhawk0, So...you have verified that you have bad caps in your 500gP also? I have two 520gU's...both are fine....but every unit should be checked just to be sure. I checked and my two 470mF ... |
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| Topic: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 48 Views: 122888 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 14:06 Subject: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
| I will this afternoon; definitely I have a bad PSU but I need to open up the router to get a close inspection of the capacitors. I will keep you posted. | |
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| Topic: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 28 Views: 25263 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 13:56 Subject: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
| Mrrkf, I have similar symptoms as reported by "redhawk" with my Asus WL500G Premium but it seems to be caused by hardware problem with on-board capacitors and/or a faulty PSU. Read the fol ... |
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| Topic: ASUS WL500gp stopped working |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 13 Views: 9329 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 13:52 Subject: ASUS WL500gp stopped working |
| I have similar symptoms with my Asus WL500G Premium but it seems to be caused by hardware problem with on-board capacitors and/or a faulty PSU. Read the following post: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/ ... |
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| Topic: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 48 Views: 122888 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 13:36 Subject: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
| Yes, I have been on the same road with Dell Optiplex GX2xx series workstations. Back in 2005 I had to replace 80% of all failing motherboards because of this same issue. The power brick on the Asus ro ... | |
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| Topic: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
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Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 13:20 Subject: Router and Power Supply information - Bad Capacitors |
| Hello Redhawk0, Great finding! I will physically inspect my Asus WL-500g Premium to look out for the same issue. It makes sense that unreliability will drop into a device if it has bad capacitors; I ... |
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| Topic: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
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| thx-1138 Replies: 28 Views: 25263 |
Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:47 Subject: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
| Hell RoIF, Great to know that your unit is running well. What I have gathered from these units is that they have two types (make/model) of radios; which one do you have in your particular unit? This ... |
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| Topic: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
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Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 19:13 Subject: [SOLVED] Asus WL-500gP Restarting When WiFi Is Turned On |
| I have not tried newd2 and much less if it has a tendency to 'brick' my nice Asus router. Follow the thread I pointed out on the previous post; they are talking about using Kernel 2.6 on newer DD-WRT ... | |
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| Topic: WL-500W losing connection, not working, problems, etc... |
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Forum: Broadcom SoC based Hardware Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 19:08 Subject: WL-500W losing connection, not working, problems, etc... |
| We talking about the WL-500W not the WL-500g. I know but they could have related root cause for these issues. |
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