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This seems to back up the dead PSU theory http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=20055 That's an interesting link Chris, I'll have a look further. Looks like QNAP technical help might be worth trying too, though when I was struggling to upgrade to SqueezeCenter they were at the same time very helpfu...

If its a Linux if the worst happens I should be able to read the disk for you. I was going to post on this but I think he said he has a backup........fwiw I'll bet its got 1 x ext3 and 1 x ntfs partition...even if the drive board is shot there are loads of peeps out there who will screw the drive o...

Ali Tait wrote:Very obvious and you've probably checked,but is there an internal fuse?

I did look but couldn't see anything obvious. Have to admit I was hoping it was a nice, easy to replace fuse that had blown. I think I'm going to have to strip it down to find out so might find out a bit more then.

Nick wrote:If its a Linux if the worst happens I should be able to read the disk for you.

Thanks, that could be a very useful offer.

Dave the bass wrote:Fingers crossed for ya veggieBruv.

Me too Dave, me too

Is there a POST(power on self test) beep sequence at switch on? most logic related equipment has one of some sorts.... Thanks Ed, do you mean when I press the button to turn it on does it beep and stuff? Sorry for the dumb question - when you and Nick start I quickly get lost. Pressing the on butto...

I don't know what a QNAP is but if it runs on a PSU is it possibly 1 or more of the supply rails have dropped due to the power being shut off by the RCD? At work we've had various SMPS's pop out after mains power failures, some seem quite sensitive to it. Sorry to hear of yer woe's Simon. DTB Thank...

The Stratmangler wrote:Try another PSU first.
If you've got one of the Maplin SMPS with variable output jobbies that will do.

Yep, got one, I'll give it a try later.

Can you try the hard drive as a slave in your PC and see if the contents can be read ? I did think of that but it will have to wait until the weekend when I have some time. Not sure how compatible it is with a PC though... Thats why I asked what its running :-) Gizza chance! :D Our work internet co...

What was it running? Good question. I'm not sure - it's whatever it comes with, some form of Linux I think. It was running SqueezeCenter on SSOTS (SlimServer on Turbo NAS). This is part of the problem for me, messing around with tarballs and getting lucky finding webpages with script files and expl...

pre65 wrote:Can you try the hard drive as a slave in your PC and see if the contents can be read ?

I did think of that but it will have to wait until the weekend when I have some time. Not sure how compatible it is with a PC though...

I don't really know what this stuff is but I'm going to assume it's a hard disk with a PSU and if the PSU is ok then it seems to me the HDD is knackered. Which brings home the need to NEVER rely on a HDD for permanent storage. Hard disks are mechanical devices and most mechanical devices eventually...

Whilst cooking tea last night the consumer unit rcd tripped. Eventually I traced the problem to the electronic ignition of the gas hob (not that I was using the ignition when the power cut happened). Once I'd isolated it the rcd was okay again. Bugger I thought, there's a job to sort out. Later on I...

Thanks for putting my mind at rest. Like you say, I've seen criteria for DH valves but this was new to me.

Does it matter what the horizontal orientation of novals is, with respect to the heaters? I wasn't aware there was an issue but I've read recently that the heaters should be at 12 o'clock, I guess so that the heat gets away. Problem is I have 3 No. 6N6P on a plate with the heaters at 9 o'clock as it...