The Naim logo on my Unitiserve flashes continuously, which I believe is symptomatic of the CMOS battery requiring replacement. It’s a few years old and spent the last couple of years on a cold garage shelf so a dead battery makes sense.
I don’t have a nearby dealer or service centre. If I replace it myself (anti static precautions etc), can I do it without connecting to a monitor ?
Replacing the battery is easy but I believe you do need a VGA monitor and a PS2 keyboard so you can tell the Unitiserve to load Naim default settings into the BIOS. But @NeilS can give you definitive advice on this if he has a moment or two to spare.
Hi, did you keep it off for so many consecutive weeks then? I would like to know from the most expert or Naim technicians if to avoid this battery problem it is advisable to keep it always on …! I sometimes turn it off for several days and I’m definitely wrong!
A friend of mine asked that exact question of the tech guy at a top Naim dealer in the UK and was told that it made no difference to the life of the battery whether the Unitiserve was powered up or not.
It was off for a couple of years actually but as David mentioned, it’s not the fact it was switched off that drained the battery, it simply reached the end of its service life, accelerated by the cold.
If I can hook up to a tv or laptop via an adapter that would be preferred. Would much rather find somewhere to stash a bit of cable later rather than a monitor (and cable) I can’t see myself ever using again.
The UnitiServe also has both Composite and S-Video outputs available so these may allow you to more easily hook up the server to a TV rather than dealing with VGA monitors.
You will still need to have that PS/2 keyboard though.
S-video is now even harder to find, using the VGA 2 HDMI converter as @Netsrot recommends is better.
@NeilS may I ask why I cannot use wireless USB mouse with the unit? Actually I got 1 HP mouse before could work but forgot the model. I already tried 20+ other mice but unsuccesful PS2 mouse now is too difficult to find
No @Richard.Dane, my old HP mouse just plug-n-play and it was shown in USB devices list. Other ones still use the wheel to roll up and down but can not move the pointer (at bottom left corner