Thank you, Gardian, for trying to help! I appreciate it.
My LX195 had a single Western Digital Caviar black 2TB hard drive which I upgraded.
I removed the hard drive and attached it to a desktop system as a non-system drive for testing. The hard drive appears to be working fine. I can see the system partition and the data partition (as you know the data are hidden) formatted by WHS. I polled the SMART data from the drive and they are fine as well. Therefore, I don't believe that this is a drive problem.
I also inserted a blank drive into the LX195 and tried to boot it. Again, there were no POST data shown on screen (I have the debug board installed with VGA video out previously enabled). The indicator lights status is identical to that when trying to boot with the original drive.
Any more suggestions? The biggest problem is that I can't figure out what the status lights mean. They don't match any of the known diagnostic light patterns.
Please help!
Gardian wrote:
I don't have the LX195 but since no one has offered any help I will try.
Speaking to WHS V1 which you are using, the hardware I am unsure about, but WHS normally has 3 common problems.
1) hard drive going/gone bad
2) system drive filling up with error/events
3) Power supply
I do not know but would assume that the LX195 can use the Free Smart addin to keep track of your hard drives?
If you had that it would have warned you long before the system, that a drive was going bad.
I believe it is a must have, something to think about if you can get it up and running again.
But, to your problem, I would guess/hope it is a hard drive problem and not a Hardware problem.
You can mark all your drives (so they can be placed back in the same bays) and place each one in a usb to sata dock and check them.
You could test to see if your hardware is ok, by pulling all the drives out, placing a new known good hard drive in the bottom bay and trying to run a server recovery, if it completes ok, you know your hardware is ok.
Then you will need to run check disk on each drive you have in the usb to sata dock till you find the bad one.
You can use the usb to sata dock to access your data and move to something else as a backup till you get your system running if needed.
Hopefully running check disk on the drives will get them working long enough to get the smart addin installed and then work out trying to remove a drive and replacing it with a new drive.
I hope some of this is helpful.....
Good luck and shout back if you have any questions.
Again, at least your data is still there, just need to access with a usb to sata dock or if you are comfortable with opening a desktop pc you could install/add them to the inside and access them that way.