3560 displaying Chinese characters after a reload

[anjery1234]

Hello,

I have an environment with multiple routers and switches.

After I issue a "reload" while doing maintenance, two of the 3560's (WS-C3560-24PS) didn't come back online.

At the console, they're displaying unreadable characters.

Has anyone seen this before?

[IAN WHITMORE]

Are you connected via the console port?

Then is will be the baud rate. Change it to 9600.

HTH,

Ian

[anjery1234]

Ian,

Thanks for the quick reply.

As you can see from the picture, I'm connected via console port using hyperterminal; current baud rate is 9600.

I was connected through a terminal server before; I ran into this issue and now connecting via console to fix it.

[IAN WHITMORE]

OK. I thought they were up but just giving out this rubbish on the console - usually a baud rate problem. But I just re-read and you're saying the switches didn't actually come back online?

Then you're doing the right thing already and connecting to them directly. I guess you will try to restart them again. Let us know how it goes - if they boot correctly or if they boot into another mode.

Ian

[garapoglou]

Hi,

I would reboot the pc used to access the swithes, try it from another pc or even try another terminal emulator instead, like Putty.

Best regards,

Giorgos

[anjery1234]

Guys...thanks for the various contributions.

I changed the baud rate to 115200 and it worked.......I think I did a xmodem transfert a while ago and forgot to change back.

Thanks again.

Issue resolved

[IAN WHITMORE]

Welcome.

Can you mark it as solved?

Cheers,

Ian

[Leo Laohoo]

To return into default mode, enter the ROMmon command "unset BAUD".