2501 won't boot

Hi John,

You may wish to investigate "Boot Issue Solutions" at the Cisco Router TAC Case Collection / Knowledge Base:

http://129.41.16.73/core/home Sincerely,

Brad Reese BradReese.Com Cisco Repair Service Experts

Hi John,

You may find "Boot Issues" of the Cisco Router TAC Case Collection / Knowledge Base helpful:

http://129.41.16.73/core/home Sincerely,

Brad Reese BradReese.Com Cisco Repair Service Experts

Hi,

I recently was given an old 2501 router. I hooked up a console cable and powered it up, and it seemed to go through it's sequence, indicating memory, IOS version etc, showed a couple of error messages (e.g. CDP not enabled, etc.) and then the "hit return to continue". However, at this point it's simply frozen. I tried repowering several times and basically got the same result. Also tried sending a cntl-break during power up, and it did dump me into a ">" prompt, but then freezes.

Is this one simply destined for the scrap heap, or is there something else I can try?

thanks, john