01-08-2015 09:14 AM - edited 03-07-2019 10:08 PM
Hello All,
I'm fairly confident I know what's going on here, but I want to be certain before I deem a router unuseable.
I booted up a 3845 router that had been in storage for probably about 1.5 years, and expected to have to break into and reset the password, but I didn't have to. The old startup-config for the router did not load, and it spit out a lot NVRAM errors on boot. Once booted I tried setting a username and password and writing the running-config to the startup-config, but received an error about a "failure to initialize NVRAM geometry", tried erasing the startup-config and got the same error.
All attempts to do anything with the NVRAM result in errors, so would I be correct in thinking that it's unreadable/unwritable/fried?
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01-08-2015 05:50 PM
The DRAM may need to be cleaned and re-attached.
01-08-2015 05:50 PM
The DRAM may need to be cleaned and re-attached.
01-09-2015 01:22 AM
I cleaned it out and it booted without errors. Thanks Leo.
01-09-2015 03:10 PM
Thanks for taking the time to rate our posts, Zach. :)
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