Received my cable today and immediately set to work fixing my MSS EX470 that had been out of action for 10 days, and I desperately wanted to figure out just what the hell happened to it. Turns out I had a static IP conflict, and SOMETHING on my network was taking the IP I had set aside for the WHS. Only problem was, the router did not ID it by any name, so I started checking MAC addresses for the over 10 devices on my network .. FUN !!
](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick Wall")
I had pretty much run out of things to check, so I thought of the oddball ones that were connected to my network and immediately fixated on the Dish 722 DVR that I had forgotten about until then. Sure enough, that damn thing WOULD NOT LET GO of the WHS reserved IP, so I left it unplugged until it eventually releases that IP.
Many thanks to Charles for the quality cable. I had some issues, none of which had anything to do with the cable, but were PEBKAC errors instead. I did not press it into the board slot firmly enough upon first use so after I reseated the board back in the case it yanked enough on the cable to pull it loose.
My second error was routing the cable and drilling a hole so that the cable exited the bottom left half of the access panel over the front of the server, but I did not trim back the internal plastic enough to let the cable sneak by the front USB PCB that attaches inside of the access panel. I looked over several posts but found none that clearly show an ideal way to sneak that cable out of the MSS. I'm close, but I'm being picky about fit and finish on it as well.
