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stubbsy1
Oct 12, 2014Guide
Readynas Pro 6 - no display, How to factory reset?
I have a ReadyNas Pro 6. Some time ago the display stopped working (pressing the backup button does nothing, nor does it display during boot). Up until now this hasn't been a big deal, but now I want ...
stubbsy1
Oct 18, 2014Guide
mdgm wrote: Looks like two of the three Pro units registered to stubbsy are still under the 5 year limited hardware warranty if the dates shown on the support site are accurate.
One unit was purchased in early 2009 and is out of warranty.
Correct. Guess which one has the dead display :(
I thought I'd update this as well with some results:
1. I connected via frontView and went to System/Update/Factory Defaults (thanks mdgm for pointing out something obvious I missed) which did what was required
2. Then I tried another idea that occurred to me - swapped all the disks out of my working 6 (labelled each one) then put in the 6 disks from the one with dead display. Factory defaulted there then swapped all disks back in both boxes. That also seemed to work
4. Finally I also tried the approach of mirroring what I did on my Pro Business with a working display - that also worked without issue
Yes that's doing the same thing three times - I was curious. All is now working fine.
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