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NV+ will not boot - LED flashes
Hi All, Does anyone know what the following LED state means: Green LED against drive 1 blinks 5 times. Then all 5 green LEDs (drive 1 to 4 and act) and the blue power button blinks 3 times qu...
Also have a read through this. The led pattern is similar.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/NV-will-not-boot-LED-flashes/td-p/925981
Although the led pattern is not typical of a memory problem, the user in that post made progress by changing the memory. Worth trying to do a memory test too if the unit lets you.
Factory default:
The only LED guide I know of for the NV+ is here: http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/support/ReadyNAS-LED.pdf But your pattern doesn't seem to be there. Perhaps someone from Netgear will decode the pattern for us.
You can't do a factory reset w/o disks (a factory reset does a factory install to the disks). I don't recommend that users do USB recovery unless Netgear suggests it.
Did you try reinserting all disks except for disk 1, and seeing if it boots? (Hopefully the disks are labeled by slot).
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