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Basic Hardware tests

  • FAN
    • FAN present and running. Go to LED Check section
    • FAN present but not running and no LEDs are on. Check power availaibility before going to Report Problem section.

  • LED Check
    • POWER LED OFF on products FGT50, 50A, 60, 100, 100A and Wifi. Check power availaibility. See External Power Supply section
    • POWER LED OFF on other FGT products. Check power availaibility. If power is OK, go to Report Problem section
    • STATUS LED ON. Go to Console Port Access section
    • For FGT50 only : POWER LED ON, STATUS LED OFF, EXT and INT LEDs ON with no ethernet cable connected. RMA External Power Supply
    • For FGT50 only : POWER LED Flashing / Blinking, Status LED OFF and EXT and INT LEDs Flashing/Blinknig with no ethernet cable connected. RMA External Power Supply

  • External Power Supply
    • FGT50 5V/3A (Plug Country dependant)
    • FGT50A 12V/3A
    • FGT60 12V/3A
    • FGT100 12V/5A
    • FGT WIFI 12V/3A
    Swap power supply
    If power supply is faulty go to Report Problem section.

  • Console Port Access
    • Start Terminal emulator

    • Communication Setup : No Flow Control, NULL Modem Cable
      • FGT 300 and All FMG: 115000/8/N/1
      • All other FGT : 9600/8/N/1
    • Power on the Fortigate

    • Boot Message is displayed
    • FGT200(02.28.2002)
      Ver:02060000
      SerialNum:FGT20028010xxxxx
      SDRAM Initialization
      Scanning PCI Bus...Done.
      Total RAM: 256M
      Enabling Cache...Done.
      Allocating PCI Resources...Done.
      Zeroing IRQ Settings...Done.
      Checking IRQ Routing Tables...Done.
      Enabling Interrupts...Done.
      Configuring L2 Cache...Done.
      Boot Up, Boot Device Capacity=61MB.
      Press Any Key To Download Boot Image.
      ........
      
  • Similar message displayed ?
    • No : Go to Report Problem section
    • Yes : Press a key when prompted

  • Is there a new prompted message to allow you to load firmware via TFTP server?
    • No : Check your null modem cable before going to Report Problem section
    • Yes : Do you have a Hard Disk issue ? Yes ---- No

  • Report Problem