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USB Recovery and boot menu > memory test with reference to OS updates and making bricks.
Reference: Re: RN102 unresponsive after initiating FW update from 6.10.6 to 6.10.7 Followed directions at this link: https://kb.netgear.com/29952/How-do-I-use-the-USB-Recovery-Tool-on-my-ReadyNA...
Re: boot menu > memory test
Entered boot menu, selected memory test, and momentarily pressed RESET.
The POWER LED immediately starts blinking rapidly,
and that is the only* LED that has been blinking for over five hours.
This situation is not described in the memory test documentation.
How do you interpret these results?
*The green Ethernet LED is also blinking with network traffic.
btwixt wrote:
Re: boot menu > memory test
Entered boot menu, selected memory test, and momentarily pressed RESET.
The POWER LED immediately starts blinking rapidly,
and that is the only* LED that has been blinking for over five hours.
This situation is not described in the memory test documentation.
How do you interpret these results?
Here is another datapoint:
Start memory test and POWER light, and ONLY the POWER light
blinks for 5 1/2 hours. Then the unit powers off!
I push the POWER button and the power LED flashes for about
6 seconds the stays on solid. In this state unit is unresponsive
to ANY button.
I remove power from unit, hold the RESET button in, apply power
and the unit powers up without touching the POWER button and enters
the boot menu. Release RESET and select memory test.
The 5 1/2 hour cycle repeats itself. I've tried this three times
and it is always the same 5 1/2 hour cycle.At this point I think all I am doing is carefully characterizing
and documenting some bizarre path through the tall weeds the
processor seems to have developed a penchant for.
In other words, I am characterizing a broken unit.It's just that... if it is that consistent doing these things...
and it is doing them with some inscrutable purpose...
I mean... it just seems like there is still some hope for it.
It's alive, but in a different dimension that we can observe
but not fully interact with.Have you booted without the drives? How about when booting on Tech Support mode or SecureDiagnostic Mode does it give a code and RAIDar detects your NAS?
24 times trying to get USB recovery suceed is a red flag as it usually needs to get RMA. If RAIDar can detect it, it would be best to create a case so we can get ReadyNAS Support involve
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