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Aspirant

Feb 15, 2017

Blue Flashing Night to NAS

I have a NAS RN10200 (which I got second hand). I've put a 2 and a 3 Tb disk in and tried to start the NAS... The blue light comes on but then after a short while now flashed continually? The sec...

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xiao123

NETGEAR Expert

Feb 16, 2017

Did you mean the act light flashing? when you operate with nas, such as upload files to it, or the nas is syncing, the act would flash, its a normal phenomenon.

winchesterstoke

Aspirant

Feb 16, 2017

Hi, and thanks.

Just to try and make the clear: the blue light showing in this picture says "Act" with a blue light, and then above shows a flashing blue light,

I have left this NAS on for ~6 hours and it's not started apart from the blue lights.

Any idears please?

Thanks

NAS

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Feb 16, 2017
So you're looking to wipe the disks and set the NAS up for the first time?

Have you tried a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything)?: https://kb.netgear.com/22892/How-do-I-access-the-boot-menu-on-my-ReadyNAS-102-202-212-or-312
- winchesterstoke
  Aspirant
  Feb 21, 2017
  Thanks! I can now get a biy thirther!
  
  Cheers!
- winchesterstoke
  Aspirant
  Feb 22, 2017
  
  Hi, I still have a (big) problem!
  
  I have done a factory reset and I thought I was now OK...but not.
  
  I've done the rest (I believe?) reset but something is not good:
  
  I then (in Windows) select "Setup" when saying "New ReadtNAS Discovery" - it now looks OK (after I'd done the reset and given it some time).
  
  I then "Setup with ReadyCLOUD (Default)" . then "Next".
  
  Then I get:
  
  Any help please?
  
  Thanks!
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Feb 22, 2017
    Log into the NAS directly (the so-called "offline" method). Use https://nas-ip-address/admin (using the real NAS ip address of course).