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Title: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: czhower on June 29, 2009, 09:39:09 PM

Powered off unit and left for 7 weeks. Returned home and powered it up. All seemed fine, but cannot reach it on network.

So now Im trying to factory reset it. I've held down the reset button the rear, after about 7 seconds the lights blink and it reboots.

Yet it does not take an IP by DHCP, nor default to 192.168.0.32.

I've tried forcing a factory reset several times.

Title: Re: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: ECF on June 30, 2009, 09:19:45 AM

Try setting a static IP address to your PC to something like 192.168.0.99 and connect a cable from your PC directly to the DNS-321 and try to access the DNS-321 at 192.168.0.32.

Title: Re: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: czhower on June 30, 2009, 05:21:01 PM

None of that worked. Tried via a hub, as well as cross over. None of it worked. Previously I remembered I had trouble with its speed auto detection. I only solved this by using a cross over to a machine that has a gigabit ethernet ethernet.

Title: Re: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: czhower on June 30, 2009, 06:03:40 PM

Spoke too soon. Had it working last night. Came home today, rebooted both computer and NAS. Now cannot reach it.

Have forced NIC on computer to 1.0 GB, Auto, and 100. Nothing seems to make the NAS visible again even when IP is hardcoded and using a cross over cable.

Title: Re: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: czhower on June 30, 2009, 07:33:44 PM

Just spent about 3 hours. Tried 5 different cables, cross over, straight, 3 different computers. Reboot, reset, over and over. Network light lights up, and even occasionally blinks. PC detects LAN state is active when both are on.

However NAS does not respond to the search utility, nor ping.

Is this yet another DLink dud for me?

Title: Re: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: ECF on July 01, 2009, 09:16:34 AM

What are the LEDs on the unit doing?

Title: Re: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: czhower on July 01, 2009, 06:22:27 PM

All 3 are on. Occasionally the network light blinks.

The main long light is also on and solid.

We had another unit in a box, I pulled it out and put the same drives in, plugged it in and its working so far instantly.

Title: Re: Cannot perform factory reset
Post by: rarismendi on June 16, 2010, 06:49:46 PM

My dns-323 just work 14 hours , late the power light will blink forever