I just purchased 5 RB493’s. Mikrotik’s website states that these units will do 800Mhz (Factory tested!?). Out of the 5 I can only get 1 of them to boot at 800Mhz. I have even tried upgrading the BIOS from 2.18 to 2.20 as well as upgrading the RouterOS to 3.23.
Any suggestions?
Think I should be able to return these units?
No. There are using a 680MHz processor. Why do people think that they need to overclock? If they ran reliably at 800MHz then MT would ship them set to that frequency.
These are straight out of the box. It is certainly not a heat issue.
MT has a history of not testing things fully. I should not be surprised that they state factory tested and lie about it.
These are plain boards. No add-on cards. I took one straight out of the box. Hooked it up with a serial cable. Changed the CPU speed to 800Mhz and it did not boot RouterOS. This indicates to me that these boards are not being properly tested by Mikrotik.
If anyone else has access to the RB493AH, I would like to know if it works for them at 800Mhz?