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LEDs are blinking at constant rapid speed without any code indication
Hi guys,
I am looking for some solution as search does not show anything like I am experiencing. I have this NAS setup and running for years. Never had any problems with it apart from yesterday. The power went down due to some circuit shortage in an outdoor light bulb.
Apparently this bulb was connected to the same line as some power outlets so a circuit breaker triggered. I did not know it is a bulb and it was midnight so I was trying to get the circuit breaker on a few times unsuccessfully until I found it was the bulb problem. So I believe it caused the power outlet the NAS is connected to get powered a few times in a row for a few milliseconds. After the bulb was off and power outlets started working including the one that powers NAS. Anyway I wen to bed but in the morning I found my NAS not functioning and here is what it is doing. There are no LED On for any of two drives(I am using WD red) installed. If I leave the HDDs in bays and connected I got Act(I believe means active) LED On and solid(not blinking) and I have power LED and Backup LED blinking rapidly at the same speed non stop. I cannot turn my NAS off apart from unplugging a power cord. When I plug it back it does exactly y the same as it was doing all night. Without me pressing anything and about 2 seconds after I plug power POWER and Backup are blinking rapidly, Act is solid on. I tried to factory reset without my HDDs(I do not want to loose any data) but it is kind of impossible to follow instructions. The offer to turn it on/off with the button and pressing the power button does nothing.
I tried to press factory rerset while the cord was unplugged abd then plugged it again still pressing factory reset but it just start in this state and there is nothign I can do.
And of course I cannot connect to it through its IP.
Any advice on how to fix it?
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ozstockman wrote:
I tried to factory reset without my HDDs
It can't be done. The factory install formats the hard drives, and does a fresh factory install onto the disks.
ozstockman wrote:
in the morning I found my NAS not functioning and here is what it is doing. There are no LED On for any of two drives(I am using WD red) installed. If I leave the HDDs in bays and connected I got Act(I believe means active) LED On and solid(not blinking) and I have power LED and Backup LED blinking rapidly at the same speed non stop. I cannot turn my NAS off apart from unplugging a power cord.
Try removing power. Then remove the hard drives (labeling them by slot).
Power up the NAS w/o the drives, and install RAIDar on a PC. See if it finds the NAS and reports a "no disks" status. https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar
Power up the NAS w/o the drives, and install RAIDar on a PC. See if it finds the NAS and reports a "no disks" status. https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar
Thanks for a suggestion. I have tried it already and it cannot be found even when the system is plugged directly to a laptop with an ethernet cable. The ethernet LED at the back seems to show its active status but the nas not resposding to pings. Its IP is set to be fixed so I do not beleive even that part is working.
I have tried to keep it unpowered for the whole night. In the morning when I plug it it is doing the same with LEDs.
I have also tried otherwise(left it powered for hours) hopping it may just trying booting up. Nope, not a fix.There is a bit of change in LED statuses so I guess I'll need to let others know in order to find a fix.
After leaving the system for another 5 hours unpowered and powering it again it now has only one power LED flashing at a slower speed than before. So the frequency of flashing is different from before.
Backup LED is now OFF all the time which is different from a previous state. With all previous attempts it was ON straight after powering and usually started flashing at the same speed as a power one with a delay of 1-2 once powered.
With no disks in the bays Act LED is OFF but once I install at least one disk Act LED turns ON with solid light(not flashing). The same as before.Also a much bigger change is the system now can be found on LAN with Raidar. However it shows a wrong IP address(192.1.168.168) which seems to be not coming from any DHCP. The fixed IP that was setup in the system should be 192.168.1.7
192.168.168.168 is not responding to pings. Raidar can see system details such as firmware, serial number etc but always says it is diskless no matter if the HDDs are in their bays or not.
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