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ReadyNAS 516 - won't boot
Hi, Looking for some ideas. I just installed a new NAS and was about to re-purpose the 516 to lighter duty. The drives were pulled and a new (new and old) set was put in. When I try to boo...
Ok, so today I tried to insert the newly built array into the old NAS. The new drives went back into the new NAS and it came up just fine. So there is that.
The old drives went into the old NAS and the unfortunately (although somewhat predictably) the NAS exibited the same behavior.
I then harvested an ATX power supply from a computer I have running in the same cabinet, but could not get it to work at all! No response from the NAS at all. So I reconnected it's own PSU to ensure I had done nothing bad (I had to pull the panel with the motherboard out to get access to the two connectors). Good news is that it was still trying to power on with it's own PSU.
After reading a little on ECC vs. non-ECC memory, I was conforatble pulling a non-ECC module from the same computer and swapping that into the 516. Amazingly it went straight to the boot process and complained that there were no disks!
I replaced the motherboard so that the ATA port daughterboard was mounted and fired it up again, and it came up normally.
So long story short, memory module was bad. Ordering a new ECC one now.
Thanks again for all the help!!!
I did try to boot from a single clean (unformatted) disk before I found the CMOS reset would kick the LED back to life. In that case the bahavior was as described before. The fans spun up to max and never came down, the LED was dark and the reset process did not have any effect.
I agree that the PSU is still suspect given the power cycling (seems like it fails on spin up) however it seems to have adequate power when it is the first attempt (disks and fans spin up) and stay running. I'll try the PSU, but really want to try this pre-built array first. I am debating upgrading the other NAS to 6.10.2 given your earlier comment of the comparison, as this would guarantee that the disks have the newest version (the 516 was at 6.10.1 when it died).
I'll let you know tomorrow once the array is built and I can give it a try.
Ok, so today I tried to insert the newly built array into the old NAS. The new drives went back into the new NAS and it came up just fine. So there is that.
The old drives went into the old NAS and the unfortunately (although somewhat predictably) the NAS exibited the same behavior.
I then harvested an ATX power supply from a computer I have running in the same cabinet, but could not get it to work at all! No response from the NAS at all. So I reconnected it's own PSU to ensure I had done nothing bad (I had to pull the panel with the motherboard out to get access to the two connectors). Good news is that it was still trying to power on with it's own PSU.
After reading a little on ECC vs. non-ECC memory, I was conforatble pulling a non-ECC module from the same computer and swapping that into the 516. Amazingly it went straight to the boot process and complained that there were no disks!
I replaced the motherboard so that the ATA port daughterboard was mounted and fired it up again, and it came up normally.
So long story short, memory module was bad. Ordering a new ECC one now.
Thanks again for all the help!!!
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