Hi everyone,
I'm building a NAS at home using an Asrock C2550D4I with a Sandisk 120gb SSD and a pair of WD RED 4tb drives.
I was trying to install Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, and 16.04 on it with absolutely no success due to the installation constantly freezing at various points or program failures. I did checksum and disk checks on the USB drives before trying to install Ubuntu and found no errors.
After a while I thought it might be the BIOS, so I updated it. This left the LAN connectors non-functional so I tried to flash back to the original BIOS version, which I downloaded from the Asrock website.
After the successful flash, it hung on a black screen for a few minutes before I shut down the computer manually and boot it back up. After that, all I could get was a black screen with a blinking underscore. No matter what I did, including pulling the CMOS battery for 10 minutes, it would still return to this.
I noticed that 4 LEDs on the motherboard blink when I turn on the computer. They're located by one of the DRAM sticks, near a capacitor by the CPU, and 2 near the unoccupied SATA ports and the power switch header. I've read online some people suggest reseating the CPU or maybe the system isn't getting enough power, but this motherboard has an SoC cpu and I'm using a new 300w bronze PSU that worked for the last day. Now the cpu doesn't even turn on the display. It just turns on and has the 4 red LEDs blink, then sits there. All of the fans turn on just fine, so I'm at a loss.
I'm building a NAS at home using an Asrock C2550D4I with a Sandisk 120gb SSD and a pair of WD RED 4tb drives.
I was trying to install Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, and 16.04 on it with absolutely no success due to the installation constantly freezing at various points or program failures. I did checksum and disk checks on the USB drives before trying to install Ubuntu and found no errors.
After a while I thought it might be the BIOS, so I updated it. This left the LAN connectors non-functional so I tried to flash back to the original BIOS version, which I downloaded from the Asrock website.
After the successful flash, it hung on a black screen for a few minutes before I shut down the computer manually and boot it back up. After that, all I could get was a black screen with a blinking underscore. No matter what I did, including pulling the CMOS battery for 10 minutes, it would still return to this.
I noticed that 4 LEDs on the motherboard blink when I turn on the computer. They're located by one of the DRAM sticks, near a capacitor by the CPU, and 2 near the unoccupied SATA ports and the power switch header. I've read online some people suggest reseating the CPU or maybe the system isn't getting enough power, but this motherboard has an SoC cpu and I'm using a new 300w bronze PSU that worked for the last day. Now the cpu doesn't even turn on the display. It just turns on and has the 4 red LEDs blink, then sits there. All of the fans turn on just fine, so I'm at a loss.
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