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Readynas ultra 6 dead motherboard
My Ultra 6 is not booting any more, After turning on the power the blue light goes on, disks start spinning, and i get readynas on the display. But it does not boor or the network lights on t...
My first suspect would be the power supply -- specifically the CPU 3.3V. You can use a standard ATX supply mounted externally to determine if it's the power supply, and replacements are available (though not from Netgear). A motherboard going bad is certainly a possibility, and you have already eliminated many others. But the power supply is a known sore spot for early failure.
The power supply is good,
I have tried a new ATX supply as sugested, same result, you can power on and off the device, disk starts spinning, Readynas shows in the display then nothing
is there an other board i can try
You could try sourcing a motherboard from another unit, but that may be in questionable condition itself. This is assuming the motherboard is the problem.
At this point I would think it would be better to get a new ReadyNAS (e.g. 316/516) and to follow the special procedure for attempting to boot off the disks taken from the Ultra 6.
The Ultra6 does have a VGA header on the motherboard (at least, it's labeled as such and has the right number of pins), though I have never connected to it and do not recall seeing confirmation here tht it is of standard configuration. But Netgear tends to be pretty consistent, so I suspect that it is (as it is on the 6-bay Pro models). With a proper cable, you could look for BIOS messages during boot-up to try and diagnose further.
Pluged a VGA connector , but it as well remains black no signal, so really the board is broken, i am sorry to say but it nust be possible to get e new board, they must have been mass produced
so the question remains where to find a replacement board where have they been manufactured
I have measure al the voltages on the board and they seem normal, are there simulr problems with this board is the an other way to try to repace the firmware, I have tried to boot from USB
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