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Readynas RNDP6000 (OS6) power cycling every 2 seconds following a area-wide power outage.
hi guys hoping for any suggestions of where to start fault finding, to get my NAS to boot up ? We had "that storm" yesterday and electricity to the whole area was off for 24 hours. When it ca...
xlr8r wrote:
should I assume it's safe to test the main NAS motherboard using a standard 300w ATX PC power supply ?
Should be. See this old discussion thread:
ok thanks Stephen ill give that a go
i neglected to mention that the nas was operating on a UPS and would have shutdown when the battery got to 20%, does this have any bearing on the fault ?
ok stripped the unit down removing the PSU for testing since it continued to exhibit the same fault with all drives removed.
on testing the PSU (with a PSU tester), only the 5v was present. 3v and 12v are dead rails.
looks like a replacement is needed. are there any good recommended alternative (or modded) PSU's I can tinker with ?
many thanks
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