Agent1533, my ASA was a brick. Would not get any boot information displayed on the console port prior to the fix & amber status light only flashed amber. After installing the 150 ohm resistor as instructed ASA boots & is working. In my instance my CP...

@Bernhard Roth wrote: If the firewall is already broken, there is no chance to fix it.   The CPU is physically damaged internally and cannot be fixed.   Only when the firewall is still working, applying the fix will prevent the CPU to get bad.   Sorr...