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Is there any known tricks for getting an NV+ into the boot menu? I'm trying to do a USB os install due to an OS Index error but maybe once in every 100+ tries the NAS won't go into the boot menu. It just powers up as if you released the power button. I'm trying this mulitple times due with various hard drives and usb sticks but this is getting silly.
When I power up normally I get LED 1 and 3 on solid and the LCD stays dark. When I press and hold the power button (until LED 1 and 3 light up, aprox 7 seconds), 99.9% of the time the same thing happens. 0.1% of th time I get the LCD to light up and boot options appear.
I have a couple HDDs and a couple USB sticks and I have only gotton to try a couple combinations.
Not sure this is worth my time as this device has never really worked well for me 😞 But I miss it all the same.... 🙂
This morning I fired up the NAS and it did go into the boot menu but this time the LCD was dark and letting go of the power switch had no effect. It just kept cycling though the options (all disk LEDs blink every 5 secs). I tried a few more times and back to the old issue of not going into boot options.
I'm officially calling this NAS dead. 😭. Even if I recovered it, there would be no confidence in it lasting long so it's just not worth it.
Thanks for the help though, I really appreciate it. Time to start looking for a new one.
I have the NV+ v1 (SPARC). It has INFRANT printed on one of the PCBs and RND4000 v3 as a model number.
I am following the instructions from your link. I'm tyring the RreadyNAS_USB_Flash_Recovery-4.1.12.img
To perform a skip volume check, tech support mode, memory test, TFTP boot, or USB boot:
Power off your system.
Press and hold the Power button until all Disk LEDs flash the correct number of times, and then release the button. Check the table below for reference.
Systems with an LCD (NV+ v1) will also display the boot menu item text on the LCD at each stage."
1) above I have to pull the power cable to the unit as I cannot get it to turn off by any other means.
2) Most of the time, the Disk LEDs will not flash at all. And after 7 seconds, LEDs 1 and 3 go on solid. When I get lucky, the LCD lights up with the boot options and I can select USB boot but so far all I every get is "OS Index Error"
I should note that the other way to boot, by holding reset and after 5 seconds you get one option and 25 you get factory reset, that seems to work every time, but nothing works and I'm left with LEDs 1 and 3 on.
As I said, I can get into the menu but it takes 30- 40 mins of trying to get the system to respond to a power up and realize the power button is continously pressed. Normally it doesn't think it is. I'm starting to think this guy is a lost cause and I may need to look for a new one.
I just grabbed a 3rd disk with a clean format and it works fine on my latop. It is now the only disk I'm using to test as the other two don't seem to work with my laptop so I'm assumiung they are toast.
Unit powers up right away with the power button LED blinking for 7 seconds, followed by LEDs 1 and 3 on solid.
Factory reset doesnt do anything, it just ends up with LEDs 1 and 3 on solid, no LCD display during the entire boot. But it does blink the 4 LEDs at 5 seconds and 25 seconds after power up so I know its at least doing something like it should.
Years and years ago from newegg I think. I believe I purchased it around the time the NV+ v2 was released as I was mad I got a sparc instead of x86 version. Warrenty long gone and I have taken it apeart to clean out the dust and look for damage but all looks OK.
When I do USB boot, it does some things like init USB then hits me with the OS Index error.
I can't remember which version of firmware. I think it was the latest available as of a couple months ago. I know it was a higher version than the USB recovery image I found. Is there a link to where the lastest USB recovery image is located. I only found direct links to 4.1.12
I'll give then 4.1.8 a shot after 4.1.14 which I found but at the rate I actually get the menu to work it maybe a while. It seems to be even harder now. I think this is probably a lost cause but I don't wnat to admit defeat just yet.
Thanks for the help. I'll update this in the next couple days or when I get some results
Ill let you know but I left it for 2 hours and it still said please wait. Now I can't seem to get it to go into the boot options again after 30 tries.
I have noticed that sometimes the unit will power up and then shut down in maybe 300-400ms after pressing the power button. I'm wondering if the power supply is going and now has a voltage dip when I power up causing it to loose the button status. No idea if that is possible with this design, but I have noticed the LEDs (Disk) will flash very quicky when I power on then go away and it isn't a consistent amount of time but always very short (< 1/2 second).
I'll update this post when I finally get the menu to show up again and I'll try tech support again. This time without HDDs
This morning I fired up the NAS and it did go into the boot menu but this time the LCD was dark and letting go of the power switch had no effect. It just kept cycling though the options (all disk LEDs blink every 5 secs). I tried a few more times and back to the old issue of not going into boot options.
I'm officially calling this NAS dead. 😭. Even if I recovered it, there would be no confidence in it lasting long so it's just not worth it.
Thanks for the help though, I really appreciate it. Time to start looking for a new one.
Dear Howie777 when a unit doesn't function the way it is designed for and you see erratic behavier then its either a logic board fault and or psu issue. Sme of the answers given are not forwarding you any solutions. Find a program to recover the data in raid sequence ,making sure you try the exact order the drives were placed in the nas. When a client complains it means its serious. Then purchase a new unit
Painkiller, OP did not ask how to get data off the disks, he asked how to get his nas working again. In order to come up with a solution to this one needs to diagnose the problem first.
I'll check just for grins but honestly this NAS was always less than impressive. Lots of times I had to start all over due to various issues, time machine never really worked well ( constantly determining the backups needed to be purged and redone) and remote access never worked for me. Now it's just a toy which isn't worth much more of my time. Newer and better options are out there. Also I'm pretty sure it's over 5 years old.
FYI all my data has long since been lost or stored elsewhere.
Absolutely. I think it is a bit of an interesting challenge to try to get these old units working again. I've certainly seen some units, where I have been convinced it is going to end up being declared bricked, being revived by a certain Readynas expert.
Agree that efforts should be limited to those that are free.
Vandernwerwe. I have read many posts in this forum. I gave Howie777 an honest solution. One message was all it took. I didnt tell him to reseat ram or to use a usb recovery and or OS reinstall. Save his data and move on .As if a unit needs this much attention though honestly i used to use these units for clients but now i dont . Not worth time and money,Ps it was not personal it was a solution
@Painkiller wrote: Vandernwerwe. I have read many posts in this forum. I gave Howie777 an honest solution. One message was all it took. I didnt tell him to reseat ram or to use a usb recovery and or OS reinstall. Save his data and move on .As if a unit needs this much attention though honestly i used to use these units for clients but now i dont . Not worth time and money,Ps it was not personal it was a solution
Surprisingly enough, people often do want to resurrect these units, and sometimes reseating RAM, USB recovery, and OS reinstall allow that to be accomplished.
In this case Vandermerwe (and others) were willing to participate in the engineering project as long as Howie777 was interested, but no one suggested that it was worth spending a lot of money on.
I don't think there's any real disagreement here, so let's just move on.
I'm an engineer by trade. I find it fun to tinker with this stuff. The amusement factor is what makes it worth it to me.
By the way, my serial number is a combination of numbers and letters, Not hex, letters like RT and starts with 215. I'm guessing this means no new power supply for me.
Every couple days I try to get it to tech support again but so far when I get the menu to work (after long periods without power code plugged in) it seems to do the boot mode options but the LCD is dark so I have no idea what is going on.
