Hey all, my axis 2401+ video server has stopped working properly, and I can not figure out why. It used to work fine, however one time I set changes for the Ethernet connection, thinking it could reboot itself but it seems that it needs to have the power cycled completely, which I could not do for a few days.
Anyways, now it can barely connect to a network, sometimes the status light turns red, but I can not really find a list of errors for this, and it would not tell me much. It will try and connect one in every, maybe 6 times you cycle the power, and once it showed up on the router briefly but then it loses connection. It's very frustrating, and I can not really replace it, the next cheapest option would be to try and find a BNC capture card that works, and if not (which is looking more likely) I would need to buy an IP camera, which would cost over $120 easily.
Anyways, I have left it unplugged, disconnected the coin cell on the board which is no doubt memory backup, I have reset it multiple times, and even tried the small hidden reset button (red in the picture) that is not in the manual, still no luck.
The last chance I am thinking is to connect to a serial port on it and see if I can get anything, but I am not sure, and I do not have a USB to serial adapter that uses a serial cable, but I do have one of those USB arduino pro mini programmers which is serial, perhaps I could hook that up? I am just not sure which pins I would need to use, and if I would need extra circuitry between the two.
Anyways here is a picture of the Ethernet chip, I thought perhaps it could maybe be failing and that might be part of the issue? Seems unlikely though.