Cisco 2502 Router Dead or Alive?

[tekguy88]

I recently purchased a Cisco 2502 router as a practice lab for configuration purposes and have come to a possible conclusion that my router may be defective. I have used the default parameters of:

Bit flow rate 9600
Data Bits 8
Parity 0
Stop Bits 1
Hardware flow: none

Tried it with Stop Bits as 2 and
Hardware Flow: Hardware

* Tried two different working console cables attached to my serial DB9 port ((RJ-45 adapter) to console port of 2502 router.

* Tried connecting to two working pc's.
* Using HyperTerminal as a defaut emulator.
* Cannot type in the command interface on COM1 or COM4.
* Shows a blank white screen without the router> indication or flashing underscore.
* When trying COM4 can only type the letter a in the command interface and nothing else.

Can it be possible the IOS image is not present?
When first acquiring the router I was able to configure it successfully, but wanted to configure it again because realized I needed to assign the IP address using DHCP.
Upon many tries I was only able to enter the console twice.


Does anyone have any insight to my little dilemma? Obviously I am a bonafide newbie to this and would appreciate any thoughts to this predicament.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Jynxx]

Do you by chance set up an ip interface that you could telnet to?

 

[JOAMON]

Sounds like the cosole port speed has been changed. Start at the bottom of the scale and keep changing com port speed until you find the right speed.

 

[hidden75]

IOS wouldn't be the issue. It has a default it would use if yours was bad. Do you get a green light on the back "OK".

Take the cover off and reseat the RAM and FLASH, check the power supply connection also. The Fan turns on correct?

 

[tekguy88]

Thanks for all that replied. Stupid me. I didn't realize that you needed to hit enter before typing in a command even upon first configuring the router.

Thanks anyway.