FortiGate 200A Not booting or Displaying ?

[Hmzeii]

Hello ! 

I'm new witth Forti Technologies and I work at an IT department.

I've earned a gift for working a lot of hours straight for weeks and this gift is a FortiGate 200A.

I absolutely don't know this firewall, so I just got home, plugged the console port to my computer and launched Putty but unfortunately, nothing appaers, just a black screen. (WTF is this poisoned gift)

Reading this forum, I tried to reboot the firewall while watching the putty window.

It displays this :

FG200A (19:06-02.28.2006)
Ver:04000003
00000000000000

And then nothing, so I can't go on an eventual maintenance menu or execute a factory reset.

Could you help me to access to the firewall or reset it ?

Thanks a lot !

Have a nice day,

Hamza

[AEK · Accepted solution]

Hi @Hmzeii 

I'm sorry to say this is a useless gift. The FG 200A belongs to the ancient world and you are not going to get anything out of it.

[Hmzeii]

Hello,

Oh ok, thanks for your answer !

I'll ask for an other firewall..

Have a nice day,

Hamza

[Toshi_Esumi]

Before throwing it away for eRecycle, I would try the reset button, press&hold for 10-15 sec before releasing the paper clip, to see if any console output would change to more normal output.

Toshi