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  • Pi3 Troubles?

    From Gryphon@21:1/120 to Jeffs on Thu Dec 21 14:32:50 2017
    On 12/20/17, Jeffs said the following...

    Hello Avon,

    Sadly, the Raspberry Pi3 that I had Mystic installed on became
    unreachable. The network interfaces ceased to function. I couldn't even
    access them as Raspberry no longer saw them as existing.

    Picked up another Pi3 B system board, poped in the SD card and it loaded
    the static IP fine. I also took the oportunity to upgarde Mystic to the
    current Prealpha release.

    When I get a moment I will check the replaced system board to determine
    what happened to cause all the network interfaces to cease functioning.

    This is probably the 3rd account I've heard of a Pi3 dying. Mine died months ago, but that was as a result of a summer storm. But in the past week or so, I've seen a number of reports of them just up and dying for no reason.

    I'm wondering if there is a short shelf life for these little buggers.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Cyberia BBS | cyberia.darktech.org | San Jose, CA (21:1/120)
  • From Caphood@21:1/112 to Gryphon on Thu Dec 21 19:46:20 2017
    I'm wondering if there is a short shelf life for these little buggers.

    There could be but just keep it cool the Pi 3 can get hot

    ²ß±ß° {tHE.pIRATE.kING} ÜßÛßÜ
    ß²Ü°ß HOIST THE COLOURS ßÛÜÛß
    þþþ NEVER SHALL WE DIE. ÝÝÞ

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/16 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: ACiD Telnet HQ / blackflag.acid.org (21:1/112)
  • From Jeffs@21:1/128 to Gryphon on Thu Dec 21 20:55:10 2017
    Hello Gryphon,

    On 12/20/17, Jeffs said the following...

    Sadly, the Raspberry Pi3 that I had Mystic installed on became
    unreachable. The network interfaces ceased to function. I couldn't e
    access them as Raspberry no longer saw them as existing.

    This is probably the 3rd account I've heard of a Pi3 dying. Mine died months ago, but that was as a result of a summer storm. But in the past week or so, I've seen a number of reports of them just up and dying for
    no reason.

    Yeah, I have heard reports of them overheating also. On the original system board I had installed heatsinks and installed the system board in a case that had a 1 inch square cooling fan. The Pi3 still seemed to function in other respects. Just not when it came to ethernet or WiFi connectability.

    The SD card and it contents seemed to be ok as it booted up fine using the
    new system board.

    Although, I have heard several Pi3 users say that due to the volume of reads and writes. The SD card will sometimes fail in about a years time. The board and SD card are only about a couple months old so I was a little that it
    failed so soon.




    Jeff

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: The Ouijaboard II (21:1/128)
  • From Gryphon@21:1/120 to Caphood on Fri Dec 22 13:41:34 2017
    On 12/21/17, Caphood said the following...

    I'm wondering if there is a short shelf life for these little buggers

    There could be but just keep it cool the Pi 3 can get hot

    Somebody here was running a Solar Mystic Pi. How is that project going?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Cyberia BBS | cyberia.darktech.org | San Jose, CA (21:1/120)
  • From Gryphon@21:1/120 to Jeffs on Fri Dec 22 13:48:06 2017
    On 12/21/17, Jeffs said the following...

    Hello Gryphon,

    On 12/20/17, Jeffs said the following...

    Sadly, the Raspberry Pi3 that I had Mystic installed on became
    unreachable. The network interfaces ceased to function. I could
    access them as Raspberry no longer saw them as existing.

    This is probably the 3rd account I've heard of a Pi3 dying. Mine die months ago, but that was as a result of a summer storm. But in the p week or so, I've seen a number of reports of them just up and dying f no reason.

    Yeah, I have heard reports of them overheating also. On the original system board I had installed heatsinks and installed the system board in
    a case that had a 1 inch square cooling fan. The Pi3 still seemed to function in other respects. Just not when it came to ethernet or WiFi connectability.

    The SD card and it contents seemed to be ok as it booted up fine using
    the new system board.

    Although, I have heard several Pi3 users say that due to the volume of reads and writes. The SD card will sometimes fail in about a years time. The board and SD card are only about a couple months old so I was a
    little that it failed so soon.

    Yeah, I'd be miffed too. But they are only $35 if I buy locally at Fry's electronics. When I got my Pi, I also got a case and that case came with 2 heat sinks. I assume that those would be sufficient, but who knows.

    As a contrast, I also have an ODROID XU4 that is similar to a Pi, but it has more cores. It comes with a cpu fan. That keeps it cooler, but I hate how
    the fan makes so much noise and keeps coming on at regular intervals.

    So the Pi is at least a quite computer.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Cyberia BBS | cyberia.darktech.org | San Jose, CA (21:1/120)