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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:
Hi,
Thanks for the quick replies.
Looking at the guide it is definately a NV+ V1 as the 3 pin power is in the bottom left of the rear panel.
I bought the unit 25 February 2010 from Amazon
Backup wise I have an external 100gb drive that does a weekly backup but I think that only backs up the mydocuments directory as I couldn't backup the full 8tb.
I haven't tried factory resetting as I don't want to lose any data yet.
The USB image using rw32 to burn a file called ReadyNAS_USB_Flash_Recovery-4.1.12.img to a flash drive and then boot for 20s just passed the fourth set of lights, but I dont even get that, just the 5 then 3 blinking sequence.
Stephen:
Did you try reinserting all disks except for disk 1, and seeing if it boots? (Hopefully the disks are labeled by slot).
Yup have tried but same 5 then 3 blinking seq
I have recorded the flashes on my mobile phone and uploaded to youtube if it helps:
cheers
Daniel
Do you have a spare disk?
I think you must attempt to factory default the nas with a spare disk. If the unit does not factory default with a spare disk then someone will have to look in tech support mode, or you will need to do the USB boot. The disk you have in the unit must be known to be good, and of course not from your array.
I have a couple of 1.5tb spare hard disks so will give that a go.
Presume factory reset is hold reset button in, on back of unit, with paperclip for greater than 30secs , if I recall?
Will sleep on it for tonight and try tomorrow after work....
cheers guys will get back to you tomorrow.
ta Daniel
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:
You only need one drive. If you unformat it first, then the system has to do a factory reset (no paperclips needed).
If you like playing with the paperclip, the full procedure is page 23-24 here: http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/HM/Duov1_NV%2Bv1_HW_en_06Dec11.pdf (Vandermerwe's link states it differently, personally I find the hardware manual to be the clearest).
Bit of a (non) update, I tried the factory reset with the single spare hard disk and unfortunately no joy.
I got the same flashing 5 then 3 sequence.
So I have taken out the memory chip and ordered a new one from Crucial.(will be a few days to be delivered). Unfortunately I can't locate the original 250mb ram chip to try it.... it will be in a drawer somewhere no-doubt!
Just as a note for info, without the memory chip (and no hd's) in I get a different set of flashes which is similar: 2 flashes of green LED 1 and then all green/blue flash 3 times and repeat.
Will keep you apraised as to whether a new memory chip solves it...
cheers guys
Daniel
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