We purchased the parallella microserver board from DigiKey one week ago and we are facing problems with the new board..
We followed the instructions on the setup page, we used the recommended power supply and heatsink installed on the board. We tried headless version of the Linux provided on your site with 32GB and 8GB SD card, but still we are having huge problems to bootup the Parallella board.
After power up, CR8 LED is on, Ethernet port LEDs light up and they start blinking. CR10 has no activity. This is happening in most cases. Maybe 3 or 4 times we manage to boot up the Linux and get ssh connection over the Ethernet. But we need to try 100 times or maybe more???to successfully boot-up the system. When we manage to bootup the system correctly, both LEDs are on and the Ethernet LEDs are blinking "normally".
Is there something we've missed or should we ask for a new board?
Thank you!
P.S.
I have already sent these questions to Parallella Support, but there was no answer.