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chico1966
Jul 28, 2018Aspirant
How can I reset a RD5200 OS without damaging or loosing data.
I have an older Ready Data 5200 and for some reason all the different modes to access the device, like technical support mode, normal mode, they all seem to produce the same results which is just a cu...
mdgm-ntgr
Jul 29, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
This would need some troubleshooting to determine what's going on and how to proceed.
There are things to check e.g. disk health, logs for clues as to what's going on etc.
chico1966
Aug 02, 2018Aspirant
Thank you for your response. I will investigate this more and let you know. I'm able to use the serial console and get into the system. I brought everything back up as well the only issue I am having is when I try to plug the display cart in I am seeing just a cursor. I've tried restarting and when I've tried to log in technical mode or any other mode for that matter it displays just the cursor. Would the video card/board go bad? I'll let you know what I do find.
- mdgm-ntgrAug 02, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
The RD5200 uses the serial console whereas the RDD516 outputs console output to a display connected to the HDMI port.
- chico1966Aug 02, 2018AspirantI was able to connect both by serial connection and to the regular VGA connector. Now serial works but the VGA shows only the cursor.
- chico1966Aug 02, 2018AspirantWhen we try to log into the NAS GUI it just hangs and time out, “cant connected to device” something along those lines. On the back end when we go into var/log for db.log there is a constant db error, I don’t remember the exact error message.
We need to see how we can re-install the OS. When we reset the NAS via the pin, we were able to hit “escape” to get into the grub boot menu, but when selecting option to re-install OS nothing happens.
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