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Post by pmeslin on Jan 11, 2013 23:08:56 GMT 7
I'm playing Frankenstein with a long-dead N5200Pro motherboard that had suffered a permanent 'self testing' message and refused to show anything on the VGA connector. I just finished installing a keyboard/mouse connector and got my hands on a universal eeprom/flash programmer. The system has now progressed from 'does nothing at all' to 'unknown beep codes'.
After having a look, there's a chance that the BIOS itself may have somehow been corrupted. Could someone image theirs and provide me a link to it?
I do mean BIOS and not firmware.
Worst case, anyone might know of a source for a spare N5200 board or if a N5200XXX motherboard could be a drop-in replacement?
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Post by howarddavidp on Jan 18, 2013 11:33:03 GMT 7
I can send you my BIOS, upload or tell me what tools I need to do this and I can make it available. I have a FTP site too.
David
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Post by pmeslin on Jan 23, 2013 1:25:07 GMT 7
Don't know if it's doable from the regular Thecus OS directly or if you need to have a more 'general' OS installed. The latter would however makes things much easier.
you need to install flashrom (apt-get install flashrom or sudo apt-get install flashrom)
When it's installed, just run flashrom once to see if it is compatible with the motherboard/chipset.
If it is, then run:
flashrom -r backup.bin
that backup.bin file would be a copy of the BIOS.
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Post by jase1973 on Mar 10, 2015 22:55:46 GMT 7
I'm playing Frankenstein with a long-dead N5200Pro motherboard that had suffered a permanent 'self testing' message and refused to show anything on the VGA connector. I just finished installing a keyboard/mouse connector and got my hands on a universal eeprom/flash programmer. The system has now progressed from 'does nothing at all' to 'unknown beep codes'. After having a look, there's a chance that the BIOS itself may have somehow been corrupted. Could someone image theirs and provide me a link to it? I do mean BIOS and not firmware. Worst case, anyone might know of a source for a spare N5200 board or if a N5200XXX motherboard could be a drop-in replacement? Did you manage to get it fixed, if so, what did you have to do? Jason |
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Post by merrick on Oct 1, 2023 5:20:50 GMT 7
I'd love to know what ever happened with this attempt - does anyone know?
I have a different problem, but was hoping for anyone's thoughts here. I have an N5200Pro. Unfortunately, my last backup is a little dated. I have had the NAS up continuously for the better part of two years and because of some cleaning I was doing I powered it down. It did behave a little funny when I tried to power it down, and perhaps that should have clued me in on a problem. I went into the NAS homepage and told it to shutdown. But instead of shutting down and staying down it kept rebooting. Eventually I just pressed the power button and it shut itself down otherwise normally that way. But when I went to power it back up - nothing.
When I throw the switch nothing happens. No lights, no sounds, the fan on the power supply doesn't even spin. So I pulled out the power supply and shorted PS_ON# (green wire, pin 14) to ground. Hoping this would NOT work - it did. The fan spun up. I checked PWR_OK (pin 8) and it was high, so the supply believes all voltages are good, and I independently checked all voltages and they were correct.
About the only thing that can be pulled on the board is memory - I did pull that just to be sure and nothing.
So I guess one question is - any guesses on something to try? I assume whatever failed did so while the system was up and operating and somehow did not directly impact it while running, but it preventing it from booting. The power supply obviously is not getting pin 14 pulled to ground to start the process. Power switch? It's sort of embedded on the board. Can it be replaced? Does anyone have any experience with this?
I think that's all a long shot. So here's a question I'm hoping has a better chance of success. There are plenty of N5200Pro for sale right now, listed as functioning. If I transfer my disks into an otherwise operating N5200Pro box will I be able to reassemble my array so that I can back my data up? I have 5 disks in a RAID 6 configuration.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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