On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 19:01 +0000, Tom Hansen wrote:
> We have a TS-7260 that was deployed on a buoy for a month. After
> retrieving the buoy, we were dismayed to find that the real time clock
> on the board had failed (obviously making much of the data it
> collected unusable). The boot ROM no longer detects it as being
> present, whereas before it would always say that a TS-5620 was detected.
>
> We also found that there was some sort of power problem that caused
> the board to reboot numerous times.
>
> Yet, there seems to be nothing else wrong with the board. Just the RTC.
>
> Is it possible that the RTC is just in some sort of weird state, like
> maybe the NVRAM on it got corrupted, and that it could be
> re-initialized somehow?
Same thing just happened to me (RTC was installed at the factory, but
never functioned). I sent it back.
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