[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Maintenance

[Walt Reed]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:44:10PM -0700, Michael Welter said:
> I went on a service call yesterday to find an asterisk system with a 
> T100P card on a Qwest PRI and a TDM40B card connected to fax machines. 
> The TDM40B LEDs were not lit, and the system did not respond to keyboard 
> input.  However, calls were being processed for the PRI and 7960 phones.
> 
> I replaced the TDM40B card with a new one, and the system now seems to 
> be ok.  But I'm wondering, why would the LEDs go off?  Why would 
> keyboard input fail?

I've seen cases where the keyboard totally locks up - sometimes hardware
glitch, sometimes software. 

In the hardware cases, you can generally unplug / re-plug the keyboard
and wake things up again. 

Long-shot, but maybe static or power surge screwed things up?