On 01/20/19 01:33, Chris Green wrote:
> My RaspberryPi has rebooted itself a couple of times recently and
> ended up in a non-working state. In particular it has no ethernet
> connection which is rather unfortunate as it's headless.
> Power down/power up fixes it but having run for months without
> problems previously it would seem there is something wrong.
overheating? have you tried a CPU heat sink?
might also be something simple, like power spikes. a Big Fat Capacitor
across the 5V input (with a 0.47uF ceramic in parallel with it) might
help. Rapid power sags, caused by lots of possible things, is a likely
cause for unplanned reboots.
> Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong?
>
see above
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