Omnia A-LED blinks 5 times red when any wifi card is inserted

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i guess the devices power delivery is somehow fried?
after installing two AW7916npd cards, the device would reboot every other day, and wifi strenght was quite bad, imho, but it worked.
suddenly, the device crashed and only the “A” LED will blink red 5 times when a wifi card is in any of the two left slots (an ssd sits in the right slot - viewed from the LED side)
can anyone make any sense of this? and is it not recommended to install two AW7916NPD?

PS: tried different psus.

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I had for quite a while 1xAW7915-NP1 and 2xAW7916-NPD installed in one TO.
The cards get that hot, that usage without fan was impossible. When using heatsinks (I posted a picture somewhere here in the forum) + fan, it worked without any problems.

The fan itself is really silent, but the outer appearance is something I would only suggest to install in a technical room or server cabinet.

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thanks for the feedback! but apart from the head, it was stable? so it might just be a faulty device, but NOT because it couldn´t bear the power load? at least, that…
i´m using heatsinks connected to the case and have a larger fan cooling the whole case to keep temps in check…
what do you use now (you wrote, you did use…) if i may ask?

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Each port should be able to supply up to 10 W:

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thanks for the confirmation. according to asiarf, the 7916-npd draws 5W average, 8w max , so that shouldn´t be it.

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If it is not the heat, then it really might be a faulty device.
Maybe someone from team can state what this blinking LED tries to tell you.

I switched to BananaPi R4. Still DIY (with a lot of try&error and only snapshot releases), but at least I succeeded in installing 10GBit hardware throughout the whole house (energy-efficient OM3- and DAC-cabling only for the full infrastructure :v:). Looking forward for full-blown WiFi 7-cards (BE19) beginning/mid of next year.

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i went at least partially 10g and am now using a switch for the internal stuff instead of relying only on the omnia / mox. if i´m able to manage the heat of the cards, i won´t switch anytime soon. lucky me, i got hold of a second omnia, which works just fine with the wifi cards. yes, will contact support, maybe it´s repairable for a decent price.
wifi7 is something i´m not that interested in atm… the wifi6 stuff was expensive enough and isn´t really living up to it´s promise :grimacing: