Hey everyone,
I've come here to these forums as a last resort before I chuck this thing out the window. I purchased my EX470 almost as soon as it was released, and before I realized that the connector didn't work with 64 bit Vista. Ok, fine, I'm an IT guy so I can remote desktop in and everything is peachy.
Well, not so much. Ever since I've had it it's been very quirky. Some days it will run fine, and others I've found it shut down for no reason. Some days it would run all day, and others I'd have to re-boot it every two hours. It's been just reliable enough for me to trust it with my important data... you know... the entire reason I bought the thing in the first place.
About a month ago it began needing an excessive amount of time (about 30-45 minutes) to boot. When I tried to use the connector I got several error messages telling me that something or other failed to load and I should either retry or skip. Generally no matter what I chose the console would fail to load and I'd still have to resort to using remote desktop to the server. When I finally did get the console to load on the sever itself, after hitting skip three times to the three errors that popped up, it gave me numerous drive errors across all of my drives. Flabbergasted and defeated I resolved to fix this thing once and for all, and I went out and got a new processor and 2 gigs of memory for it as recommended by several sites on the internet.
After the installation of the new hardware, boot times where still in the 30 - 45 minute range. I felt I had no choice but to do a server wipe and start from new, so I found my restore disk and got to it. I did the restore and the flashing blue health light never went away. I even left it overnight... nada. The restore was stuck on the screen telling me to wait for the solid blue or purple light to continue, but I never reached a solid light after trying several restores with and without my three additional hard drives.
So, I took the drives out, hooked them up to my main computer, grabbed all the files I could, and did a factory reset. The drives were being very finicky at this point, so I thought maybe I found my problem. Hard to believe that ALL THREE would be going bad, but I suppose stranger things have happened.
Factory reset done after the 34% hang problem took three hours of my life, but at least now things will be all back to normal.
Yep, normal, because now it boots and crashes immediately no matter how many drives I have in it. Turn it on... 5 reds... blue light blink for about five minutes... blue light solid for a split second and crash. Every. Single. Time.
So now what? I'm about ready to find a very exciting and public way to destroy it. I've been working on it for two days straight, and I'm at the end of my rope. I might try one last thing, and that's replacing the system hard drive, but I'd hate to do that and go through all this again.
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