How Bricked is this unit - SOLVED - bad memory

Hi

Yes I'm pretty sure the unit is bricked too, clearly Marty hasn't read my previous posts, and no one was ever suggesting it was covered by warranty.

I've videoed the light sequence for a working bootable 2100 which I'll give in a moment, I suspect either the processor is not actually running, or my flash memory is totally corrupted. The only glimour of hope is that there is a brief flick of light from the LED associated with disk 1, so there is a marginal change in led output.
Interestingly enough the scenario above listed by Marty, can you see it with Raidar or ping it, if the answer is no, then it's bricked. Um there are other conditions that would prevent that from working if you have a faulty cat5 cable or no cable inserted that would also prevent those 2 functions working, so it wouldn't necessarily be bricked.

Here is the correct lighting sequence for a working 2100 in case it is ever useful to others.

Press power button

Act comes on
Disks 4,3,2 come on
Network 2 comes on and the blue power light comes on
Act, Disks 4,3,2 go off, blue power light goes to full brightness
(At this point only the power light is on solid and network2)
Disk 2 comes on
Network 2 goes off
Blue light goes off
(at this point only disk 2 is on)
Blue light comes on (as it's now going on and off every 3/4 video frames it's clearly flashing)
Network 2 light comes on
Disk 2 goes off
Act light comes on
Disk 4 comes on
Disk 4 goes off - Blue light now remains on solid
Act light goes off
(we are now roughly 14 seconds into the boot)
Act light flicks on briefly
Act light flicks on briefly
Network 2 goes off
Network 2 comes on
Network 1 comes on
We now have flashing activity on networks 1 & 2
The act light comes on and now flashes randomly( we are roughly 23 seconds into the boot)
Act light goes off again
disk 1 comes on
disk 2,3,4 and act come on
(we are roughly 33 seconds into the boot)
Act light goes on and off showing activity.
Boot process is now well established.


As you can see from the above, the light sequence of my faulty unit never appears above.
So I suspect it is actually trying to convey an error code.

I've also discovered if i hold in the power button the unit will also turn off, so there is some intelligence still present in the unit.

I don't have a suitable memory dimm to hand, however I have found a procedure for recovering from partial flash corruption using a USB memory stick, as I've nothing to lose, I'll try that.

Thanks

Bullfrog