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Crestron AAS HDD broken - how to replace
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| Topic: | Crestron AAS HDD broken - how to replace This thread has 18 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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| Post 1 made on Friday January 23, 2009 at 07:06 |
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Hi,
Today AAS-4 Media Server can't finish load (STANDBY flashing Red/Green), HDD makes clicks. As I'm IT I tried connect it to PC but it make horrible noises/clicks so you can tell is broken, no changes to read it.
HDD needs replace is 250 GB IDE (PATA) Seagate.
I've got new HDD, but AAS won't load (not surprised).
Where I can get load software to it or how should be formatted.
In short words how to initialize it?
Thanks for help
Jack
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| Post 2 made on Friday January 23, 2009 at 08:21 |
IIRC the Crestron AAS runs on a modified Xiva (iMerge) platform, but that is not very helpful, there aren't any resources to help fix one of those yourself either. The unit will likely need to be returned to Crestron for service. jcmitch [Link: crestron.com]
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| Post 3 made on Friday January 23, 2009 at 09:38 |
Vincent Delpino Select Member |
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start by going to the highest point of the home where you have access to a window that opens. I would then throw the aas out the window, you may want to open it first, and then jump out the window after it. It would be best if you landed on top of the unit so it may cushion your fall. Other then that I dont know of any use for that pos.
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| Post 4 made on Friday January 23, 2009 at 10:15 |
jimstolz76 Loyal Member |
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That unit is the same that Elan uses (almost 100% positive) - their 1st generation had a lot of problems with the hard drive, but Elan has a series II with better hard drive and embedded OS.
Any chance Crestron also has a newer series and possibly an upgrade option? Gonna cost some $$ I'm sure.
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| Post 5 made on Friday January 23, 2009 at 10:52 |
lites4u Active Member |
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| Post 6 made on Friday January 23, 2009 at 13:30 |
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On January 23, 2009 at 10:52, lites4u said...
I 2nd Vincents reply. Sorry you guys have had trouble with these. Imaging the HD before failure seems like a good move to make. That'll be something to do over the weekend.
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| Post 7 made on Friday January 23, 2009 at 19:31 |
Stephane Advanced Member |
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is'nt there a way to replace the hard drive? I'm also screwed with an out of waranty series 1 Elan piece. I was hoping to have a better solution than the $$$ one from Elan...
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| Post 8 made on Saturday January 24, 2009 at 13:28 |
Vincent Delpino Select Member |
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no way to replace it without an image of the drive or access to the restore files and
I dont know how difficult it is to get these anymore.
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| Post 9 made on Saturday January 24, 2009 at 14:38 |
39 Cent Stamp Elite Member |
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Is it possible to image a known working AAS to get him going.. then he would just have to manually reload the CD's.
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| Post 10 made on Saturday January 24, 2009 at 16:37 |
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On January 24, 2009 at 14:38, 39 Cent Stamp said...
Is it possible to image a known working AAS to get him
going.. then he would just have to manually reload the
CD's. Image with something like Norton's Ghost?
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| OP | Post 11 made on Monday January 26, 2009 at 07:12 |
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I'll try to use another AAS to make 'ghost' of the HDD.
Anyone knows is this important how many heads and plates HDD should have, as I read somewhere that is important.
I read somewhere there are 18 Linux partitions on HDD, make resizing impossible - to stop people changing small HDD to bigger.
Thanks,
Jack
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| Post 12 made on Monday January 26, 2009 at 11:17 |
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On January 24, 2009 at 16:37, Bubby said...
Image with something like Norton's Ghost? This was a question, not a statement.
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| Post 13 made on Monday January 26, 2009 at 15:44 |
GotGame Super Member |
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Take the drive out and run this. [Link: grc.com]Worth a try first.
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| Post 14 made on Tuesday January 27, 2009 at 09:26 |
cjoneill Select Member |
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There are hard drive copiers that you can purchase that make bit for bit copies, no matter the OS. I used one of these to upgrade some hard drives on the SCSI drives in some Arrakis CD servers.
CJ
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| Post 15 made on Tuesday January 27, 2009 at 12:52 |
Stephane Advanced Member |
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what about drivers, if you replace by a different HDD?
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