Big Bad Bob  wrote:
> 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?
>
That seems unlikely given that it's winter now and it's definitely
colder in the room where it is.


> 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.
>
Possible I suppose, I guess I could simply try a different supply to
run it from, I have quite a few different ones which I can try.


> > Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong?
> >
>
> see above
>
Thanks for the ideas.

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Chris Green
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