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Originally Posted by stephen
Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded the Assist program and attempted to get it to recognize the Snap Server 2000. Alas no luck. I then looked closer at it and noticed that the System LED is exhibiting the continuous dimming/brightening pattern indicating "Failure Mode." I'm not sure where to go from here. Does this indicate that the motherboard is fried or should I try to replace the RAM and see if that is the culprit? And if the motherboard is fried, is there a way to replace it?
I appreciate any light you can shed on this.
Stephen
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Stephen,
If the light system light is flashing continusly at a rapidly rate indicated panic mode, normal is 1 every couple of seconds. I have seen them stay solid during heavy activity. The Link light should be continus. The Net light will flash with network activity, and the disk with activity. This can be caused by several things. It means something is not normal, ram, net, flash ram, etc. Try to do several resets to factory settings. Try reseatting the ram, edo 32 meg. Some times it takes a couple of trys. If you installed a harddrive did the disk light stay on for an extended period of time (formating drive)? The 2000 has the OS loaded in flash ram. Remove the drive and see if you can connect. Some 2000 drives are cable selsect while others are master/slave. With my 2000 I discovered that changing the configuration made the bios re-read the hardware. I would re-formate the HD with Fat32, and re-install it. The fan failed in mine and went without cooling for severaly days before I caught it. The surface of the case was to hot to lay on your legs with out burning. Fried the ram in one of the HD, + unknowns. Never was stable enough to put back in service. I ordered some onboard ram, but have not done the repairs yet, dreading soldering on surface mount devices. When you reset to factory, It may take assist as long as 10 minutes to detect, be patient. If your BIOS is less than 2 you will be restricted to <137 gig. Keep playing, it may come up.
David