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RNDX4000 doesn't power on anymore
Hi all,
I power off my RNDX4000 and pull off the power cord from the wall.
After a week I have tried powering on the NAS, but it doesn't power on anymore.
All leds on the front panel are turned off and also the display is black.
Only leds I see light on are:
1) the ethernet green led in the back
1) an amber led on the motherboard, permenently on.
NAS is filled with 4 x 2TB HDD where I put, among other important files, all family photos!
HDD are on RAID, but I don't remember what is the RAID type.
I suspect a PSU failure.
Please can anyone confirm this?
In that case should I have two options:
1) buy a replacemnt PSU
2) try someway to recover my data
Unfortunately NAS is no more covered by the 5-years warranty.
Any other suggestion?
The amber light posizione on the NAS motherboradThe amber light permanently lights onPower supply disassembled from the NAS
Many thanks
Marco
1 Reply
Solved.
I received zero replies to my post, peraphs it was a too stupid question for all of you or peraphs none was interested.
Any case thanks to all guys read my question.
I have connected the NAS to a PSU from an old PC I had at home.
The NAS is now 100% working, so the NAS didn't power-on because the original PSU "Seventeam ST-220FUB-5E" was fault.
Here it's how I solved, hoping it could help anyone has an out-of-warranty Netgear NAS that do not power-on anymore and wants to check if the troubles are caused by a defective PSU using a zero-cost old ATX PSU.
As the RNDX4000 uses a modified ATX power connector, before to connect the PSU ATX 20-pin cable to the NAS, I have modified the PSU pinout as showed in document ReadyNAS_PSU_pinout.pdf, by removing the two –12V(Blue) and –5V(White) cables and replacing these with two +5V cables I found in a 12V 4-pin power connector that is also available on the PC ATX.
A lot of video tutiorial show how to remove the molex connector from the 20-pin ATX port.
Unfortunately the replacing PSU do not fit the NAS case, but for me this a little problem.
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