Help: Blinking blue light - then solid blue and bliking disks after restart

[jeprira]

3 days ago, my DS415+ didn't reboot properly.
It had been running flawlessly for over a year.

It ended with a blinking blue light, no disk lights and couldn't be accessed.

I shut it down by pressing and holding the power button.

Then I turned it back on.

It's been "running" for the past 3 days: solid blue light and blinking disks with noise that would indicate spinning disks.
The network blinks as active, but DSfinder or any other method doesn't see the NAS. Nor does the router DNS.

Inside I have 3 identical disks. WD Red 3TB.

2 disks are RAID 1, 1 disk is just by itself. 2 volumes.


Is it possible that it is rebuilding the array and I should wait sill longer?

Or should I forcibly turn it off, open it, clean it, boot without the disks, then shut down, add the disks one by one, reboot, etc (assuming it boots at every step)?

Any other approach?

Thank you!!!

 

[Rusty]

This is probably the C2000 CPU bug. You will need to fix it by using the 100Ohm resistor. Lots of threads on that topic here and on the official community site. There are YT videos as well how to do it.

 

[jeprira]

Thank you Rusty, I saw the articles and the videos. Haven't soldered in years... but I'll look into it.

How about the risk by forcibly shutting down? Is it conceivable that the array is rebuilding? Will I make things worse?

Thanks

 

[Rusty]

Is it conceivable that the array is rebuilding?

The OS would still boot up even if the array is in rebuild mode

 

[jeprira]

Ok...makes sense. I'll shut down by holding the power button, pray, and get on with repairs.

Looks like a great weekend ahead.

Thanks!

 

[Telos]

Haven't soldered in years...

No need for solder (unless you choose to). See here.

 

[jeyare]

be careful with that way, when you will lost connection between the wire and resistor due common operation & vibration or something like that you can definitely lose your CPU. Soldered contact is solder contact. And contract is contract is contract.
In this job an anti static wrist strap & mat are your big friend.

 

[jeprira]

Thank you all.

I invested on a DS920+ and put the disks in the same exact positions. It worked quickly like a charm, no data loss, almost no settings to change. I have to say I was impressed at how easy it was.

With that secured, I tried the recommended fix. I did solder... no desire to live dangerously. The DS415+ booted cleanly and asked for disks. Obviously I'm not putting the disks back, they are now in the 920+, but I'll buy a couple of disks and use this NAS for something else.

Great tutorials. Thank you all.