Naim UNITSERVE. Such a problem: When it first started, it blinked, it didn’t start…, when if I do restart, it started working. This happened every time I turned it off. And now it BEEPS and flashes on startup. It’s not a bios battery error, I changed the battery and checked the voltage! Does this indicate hard drive issues or are there any other issues to look forward to?!? I checked the hard drive with the Crystal Disk program, it showed no errors or problems.
Not having a US, I’m not in a position to offer a definitive answer but, the pattern of beeps is important and different motherboards have different beep patterns depending on failure.
If it is a single prolonged beep, most motherboards are complaining that there is a problem with the video adapter. If that is the type of beep you get, you may want to hook up a monitor to the VGA port and see what happens. Either way, on boot that should tell you something more useful.
If the problem is intermittent, perhaps try reseating the ram?
You mention changing the BIOS backup battery. Is the voltage check you mentioned with the new battery only? I’m not sure if you meant the old battery voltage was ok, but you changed it anyway?
If the old battery had failed, you may have lost all of the BIOS settings.
If so, these will need reconfiguring.
Perhaps you could try connecting a monitor and keyboard?
A tell-tale sign of lost BIOS data would be that the time and date settings will no longer be correct. Most BIOS will prompt you, on screen, to set these parameters.
But, as already mentioned, details of the beep would be useful.
i.e one quick beep, or one long beep, or a pattern thereof?
Yes exactly. If you change the battery on a Unitiserve then you do need to reset the unit to use the Naim settings. And that means connecting a monitor and keyboard to the US. It’s described in several threads in the forum.
Instructions here
I have already done Restore Naim Defaults once. Now. when I put the monitor, keyboard and mouse, when I started the bios, a picture like this appeared (attachment)!?! After restarting it went back to normal?!? I also did Restore Naim Defaults again. At the moment everything seems to be working normally…
Yeah that does indeed sound the long beep was because of a video problem. A single very long beep means video issues on most motherboards.
In most cases, video output is like anything else; the capacitors go bad and cold from startup they fail when starting from cold though may work when rebooted from warm 20 mins later.
The good news is, they can be replaced. The bad news is, I don’t know if Naim do that kind of surface mount recapping of motherboards.
Bin it mate. Its heart breaking but the cost to repair is not realistic.
No, someone would pay for it even broken, even just for the case!
It might be time to move it on but I’d not recommend binning it. You’d be surprised what someone will pay for a broken US.
Yes sorry wrong words, flog it! The case is worth a few quid because it will with some adjustment take a micro ATX board.