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</head><body><p>Hi all</p><p>I've acquired an Apache Labs Hermes SDR board revision B that was known to be faulty.</p><p>Unfortunately the seller didn't have any history for the board. (German company)</p><p>The board powers up and all 5 power led's come on. The front power led turns on but the status led is on steady at around half brightness.</p><p>None of the debug led's turn on.</p><p>The board is in the same state in bootloader mode and run mode.</p><p>There is no connectivity via the ethernet port but the port connection light comes on and the activity light flickers when attempting access.</p><p>Doug from AL has advised trying a bootloader reflash with a USB blaster but failing that he thinks it is likely to be a problem with the FPGA.</p><p>My USB blaster is taking some time to arrive and I was wondering if anybody can suggest anything else I could check in the interim?</p><p>Ive carefully examined the board and can see no sign of physical damage or bad solder joints.</p><p>Any suggestions would be welcome.</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Stu M0STF</p></body></html>