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DavidCXX
Feb 19, 2016Aspirant
Readynas freezes on start up after constantly crashing
Finding this extremely frustrating. After various problems last year that appeared to be fixed by a OS reinstall, my NAS has been crashing more and more frequently over the last couple of days. I hav...
StephenB
Feb 19, 2016Guru - Experienced User
What firmware are you running? Have you disabled the antivirus service?
DavidCXX
Feb 19, 2016Aspirant
I'm not sure what firmware it is as I can't get it working long enough to check - I updated it at the end of last year. And sorry, I was trying the USB recovery tool rather than OS reinstall, my mistake, either way it just goes back to freezing whilst booting.
- DavidCXXFeb 19, 2016Aspirant
ok Ive tried using another USB and that seems to have worked - my antivirus is on but Im being alerted to a huge amount of threats - 40 and rising - help!
- StephenBFeb 20, 2016Guru - Experienced User
I suggest disabling the antivirus service.
Then perhaps scan the NAS shares with a different AV tool (hosted on a PC).
- DavidCXXFeb 21, 2016Aspirant
Ok - I have made quite a bit of progress, thanks for your advice which has been very helpful - deleted a load of files that were identified as viruses / threats so the readynas isnt crashing any longer. However, I now have a problem that I was having just before this in that the readyDLNA can't be found by any devices. It is found to begin with and works fine but after a few hours it drops off. I don't think this is due to the router as it is found to begin with and devices can still see the plex server on the nas - any ideas? I can shut down the NAS and it starts working again but obviously that isn't a long term solution. Thanks in advance
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