Some days before Christmas my Efika suddenly failed.
When I power the device on, the hdd spins up for a second and then the device switches off.

The serial debug tells me this:

EFIKA 5K2 Boot Strap [RELEASE BUILD] (c) 2002-2006 bplan GmbH (BUILD 20061101134833)
Running on CPU PVR: 0x80822014
Running on system SVR: 0x80110022
BIOS Code position: 0xFFF040D0
Setup System Config... Done.
Setup Memory Config... Done.
Setup PCI... Done.
Setup ATA... Done.
Setup USB... Done.
Setup ETH... Done.
Testing 08000000 Bytes, Pass: 00000000 Failed: 00000000
RAM TEST (fill random)...

After this, the device turns off. I.e. During RAM tet the Efika refuses to stay on line any longer, but switches itself off.
For testing purpose the Efika runs headless with no peripherals other than the hdd connected.

Any idea someone what to do?

Try disconnecting the hard disk, and test again?

If it ever comes back alive, update your firmware :D

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Matt Sealey

Good hint, with hdd removed it proceeds:

EFIKA 5K2 Boot Strap [RELEASE BUILD] (c) 2002-2006 bplan GmbH (BUILD 20061101134833)
Running on CPU PVR: 0x80822014
Running on system SVR: 0x80110022
BIOS Code position: 0xFFF040D0
Setup System Config... Done.
Setup Memory Config... Done.
Setup PCI... Done.
Setup ATA... Done.
Setup USB... Done.
Setup ETH... Done.
Testing 08000000 Bytes, Pass: 00000000 Failed: 00000000
RAM TEST (fill random)... Done.
cpu0: PowerPC,G2 CPUClock 396 Mhz BUSClock 132 Mhz (Version 0x8082,0x2014)
Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan EFIKA5K2
Version 1.3 (20061107101950)
SmartFirmware(tm) Copyright 1996-2001 by CodeGen, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Pegasos BIOS Extensions Copyright 2001-2006 by bplan GmbH.
All Rights Reserved.
Auto-boot in 0 seconds - press ESC to abort, ENTER to boot:
error: error while trying to load or boot
ok

I guess, I should check that hdd and/or get another one.

I've seen this before with an older hard disk (~10GB) - when they start to fail mechanically they draw a ridiculous amount of power from the board (since spinning up is "harder") - and this causes the system to basically shut down.

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Matt Sealey