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NAS boot issue
One of the lads at work gave me his old, 8 year old NAS, I took it home booted, configured etc and it's been working fine as cold storage. The other week I come downstairs to see it's turned off, t...
Alrighty, plugged a different PSU in and have exactly the same issue, feel like it may not be a power issue after all, perhaps the board has died?
- Only difference is that the network light no longer flashes
Andropheonix wrote:
Alrighty, plugged a different PSU in and have exactly the same issue, feel like it may not be a power issue after all, perhaps the board has died?Could be. Just to confirm - no signs of life when no disks are installed?
You didn't leave out connecting the square 4-pin connection for CPU power, did you? It's easy to miss.
Assuming it's connected, then the board probably is the issue. A RAM or CPU problem doesn't usually act that way, and they are the only replaceable components.
- That is correct, no sign of life with no drives in it.
Definitely had the 4 pin plugged in too, in all honesty it's probably easier to scrap the whole NAS and start again at some point.
Big bonus though, thought I'd wiped my old laptop that originally had all the files that were held on my NAS and threw it in the WEEE at work, turns out I still had it and hadn't wiped so I recovered all of the files I thought I'd lost :)
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