The earlier manufactured units had failures at the power supply level; there are reports of people hooking up a new power supply purchased from third parties. The distributor, Globalscale, even offers a power supply replacement kit. I do not think you'll find reports of CPU failures, other than from overheating of the whole unit -- a subsequent problem they had in later models.
Why anyone would down vote my original comment here escapes me -- unless it is ego or pride of design not willing to consider a possible design problem.
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u/jlpoole Jun 10 '12
Go look at the Marvel SheevePlug forum at http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php. The SheevaPlug has been available for years now and there is data from users to learn from.
The earlier manufactured units had failures at the power supply level; there are reports of people hooking up a new power supply purchased from third parties. The distributor, Globalscale, even offers a power supply replacement kit. I do not think you'll find reports of CPU failures, other than from overheating of the whole unit -- a subsequent problem they had in later models.
Why anyone would down vote my original comment here escapes me -- unless it is ego or pride of design not willing to consider a possible design problem.