Synology ds718+

[H1ghl4nd3r]

Got 1 of these machines, was originally told it hadn't been opened b4, up that was a lie because their is a memory module in the 2nd memory slot.


Anyway I have opened it up, switched the bios battery for a new 1, no power still

I also had a brand new power supply handy and that has a solid blue light still when plugged into the 718+ unlike the 1520+ that the led light goes out on the power supply when plugged in.

So my assumption is a transistor is shorting on the board, there is no info online about the 718+ except a video on YouTube again with no power and from what I have read this is a fault that happens more than a couple of times but usually there is some scorch mark on the board

I have a digital microscope so can get close, but on each of the multimeter tests nothing changes just 0.00 (that's without power supply connected)

I have a couple of transistors for the board and have attached a couple of pics of the board, again that's for anyone else who runs into a Problem

[H1ghl4nd3r]

Re: Synology ds718+

I tried a different setting and the 1's I have tested go up in numbers except 2
Attached pics of the 2 that won't work like the others

On the others I can use the multimeter on the single leg and get a reading of it going up to 5.30 ish, but the other 2 I have to use a different leg to get a reading.

The 2 other readings
1 does go up in voltage to 5.00 ish like the others (pic 1) but on the double leg side rather than the single leg side,
2 the 1 I think is a problem comes on at 2.14 and is instant and does not rise (pic 2) close to power supply and on the single side it goes 0.04 then instantly drops to 0.000 which is 4x 0's

[H1ghl4nd3r]

Re: Synology ds718+

I tried to edit my post but I can't after 90 mins.

Anyway I had another look around the motherboard and noticed this on 1 of the chips a hole, unsure what kind of chip that is and if it is the reason for no power.

[stj]

Re: Synology ds718+

your showing 2 bad chips
u1 - unmarked??
eu1? - wgi211at ethernet controller

[H1ghl4nd3r]

Re: Synology ds718+

your showing 2 bad chips
u1 - unmarked??
eu1? - wgi211at ethernet controller

U1 has possible writing on the top, so will use the digital microscope to get a decent picture, iPad and phone won't be able to get close enough to read, specially with the hole.



Eu1 is more of a scratch on top but again I will get the digital microscope out and get closer pics of it


Ok I have used the digital microscope to get these pics as a iPhone or iPad can't get to this level, then used iPhone to capture from microscope screen

Pic 1 and 2 is of eu1

Pic 3 and 4 is U1

[stj]

Re: Synology ds718+

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us...fications.html

your kind of fucked - it's programable logic - and i doubt it's code is public

[H1ghl4nd3r]

Re: Synology ds718+

Hmmm yes I figured there would be a problem last night, I even popped on synology to see if anyone else had this issue, might be worth speaking with synology and see what they say
Also do you think they are individual chips for that serial number or for that model?

I found a ds218+ that I had a while ago same problem, it won’t power but led stays light on so going to have a look at that now and see if it’s the same problem

[stj]

Re: Synology ds718+

i see a lot of posts about synology boxes - they have a lot of issues including some having faulty cpu's!