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echo: rberrypi
to: CHRIS GREEN
from: BIG BAD BOB
date: 2019-01-22 16:13:00
subject: Re: Pi rebooting for some

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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