https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rebooting-cisco-air-cap2602e-access-point-does-it-damage-the/m-p/4084554#M198916 <P>Forced rebooting of Cisco Air-CAP2602E access point does it damage the device?</P> Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:02:58 GMT smallgoods 2021-07-05T19:02:58Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rebooting-cisco-air-cap2602e-access-point-does-it-damage-the/m-p/4084554#M198916 <P>Forced rebooting of Cisco Air-CAP2602E access point does it damage the device?</P> Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:02:58 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rebooting-cisco-air-cap2602e-access-point-does-it-damage-the/m-p/4084554#M198916 smallgoods 2021-07-05T19:02:58Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rebooting-cisco-air-cap2602e-access-point-does-it-damage-the/m-p/4084903#M198917 Depends what you mean by forced rebooting...<BR />Hardware should not be damaged by reboot or power off but if you powered off the AP while NVRAM or flash was being written to, then that could lead to filesystem corruption of NVRAM or flash which could prevent the AP from rebooting without manual intervention of some sort on the console (which might involve needing to manually download a new software image to the AP = ROMMON recovery procedure). Wed, 13 May 2020 13:06:41 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rebooting-cisco-air-cap2602e-access-point-does-it-damage-the/m-p/4084903#M198917 Rich R 2020-05-13T13:06:41Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rebooting-cisco-air-cap2602e-access-point-does-it-damage-the/m-p/4086313#M198918 <P>if it's a factory reset or just a simple reload, the AP should have no issues at all. Will just get new config from the WLC it registers to.</P> Fri, 15 May 2020 02:56:17 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rebooting-cisco-air-cap2602e-access-point-does-it-damage-the/m-p/4086313#M198918 .Jaidev Hattiangadi. 2020-05-15T02:56:17Z