A friend of mine found a PA200 at a thrift store for $5.00 (without a power supply) I plugged it in today to see what state it was in and it looks like it had a rough life... All the guts are still inside and everything is clean and connected however it won't even get to the initial bootup MAINT prompt, anyone seen this before? Sometimes I get this bootup, most of the time I get hex output to the screen and the "board will reset" message in an endless loop, and sometimes all interface lights light up. The MGT port lights up and gets traffic blinks but I seriously doubt it is usable at this stage (I do not see it getting or having an IP this early). I am going to hand it back to him and tell him he has a nice paper weight at this point but curious if anyone has seen these errors before.
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