What happens when you add high BTU electronic components with cramped IC design? You get a dead power supply.<\/p>\n
This is what happened to my ReadyNAS 1100 late last year. Replacing the power supply was on my to-do list for some time. Luckily I didn’t have anything urgently important on this device as it was merely one of several devices I use as backup storage. However, with another one of my NAS devices having a failure this to-do item had become more important.<\/p>\n
So based on the response I was getting when I hit the power button I suspected that the power supply had failed. I opened up the case and took a look at the PSU and I could see scorch marks and swollen capacitors so yes, more than likely the PSU had fried.<\/p>\n
Rather than purchase an overpriced OEM replacement I purchased an ATX power supply<\/a> with nearly the same specifications. No, I’m not getting any money from linking the power supply but in the event anyone wanted to know what I used, there it is. I had read in some ReadyNAS forum posts on how to convert the ATX power supply to the same pin out<\/a> that ReadyNAS used and \u00a0things looked good. To do swap the pins I used another reference<\/a> on how to make a pin puller using paperclips.<\/p>\n After swapping around the pins to match the ReadyNAS specifications<\/a> I was able to power up the NAS.<\/p>\n The following video shows the process I used. Hopefully if someone is in the same boat as I was this video will help out.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n