A few days ago, my PBXact 40 failed after restarting. It might have a hardware issue or a corrupted system image. Every time I turn the device on, the power LED just keeps blinking, and the Ethernet LEDs behave the same way. I already tried connecting via console, but the device isn’t sending a sig…

generally no longer pth are used, relacing surface mount caps is not easy, but new hardware would be about $150 at Amazon, $80 at Aliexpress I would disconnect hard drives and memory and bios b attery and see if you progress first though

Usually a flashing led shows a power delivery issue. If the power test fine I would look over the board near where it plugs in for burnt components or swollen capacitors. Maybe with it powered off do some continuity checks on resistors. Image below it may be subtle but if the top of a capacitor is…

Is the voltage read under load? Flashing could either be a BIOS early stage diagnostic, used before enough of the system is up to allow the use of the display, or it could be that the power supply is continually shutting down and restarting. The latter might not happen if the voltage is being chec…

[image] david55: Is the voltage read under load? Flashing could either be a BIOS early stage diagnostic, used before enough of the system is up to allow the use of the display, or it could be that the power supply is continually shutting down and restarting. The latter might not happen if the v…

If you have off-box backups available, you can get your PBX back up and running on any hardware or VM. Install FreePBX 16 distro, release the hardware lock in the portal and activate the distro with your PBXact activation code, and it will magically become a PBXact… then restore your backup.

A capacitor isn’t too expensive. It’s easy to replace. And why not replace all chemical capacitors anyway? If one breaks, there’s a good chance more capacitors will break in the future.

Thanks, I’ll look for them and try to replace each one. Regards.

I didn’t have backups, I only managed to recover the configuration files by accessing them through another Linux system, and from there, I did all the configuration. Thanks.

You can also perform a disk-to-disk copy. Keep in mind that an SSD / M2 …etc can be damaged at any time, so it might be a good idea to duplicate your disk to another one.

I’d really want to see an undamaged board, but I’m not convinced that this is a failed capacitor. The original component seems to have been completely destroyed, whereas the type of electrolytic capacitor that normally causes problems is designed to burst safely, on weak lines on the cap. The sil…

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jfinstrom (James Finstrom) March 14, 2025, 3:47pm 25

That may be helpful.