drkailey 0 Posted October 8, 2017 QC828 POE NVR was running pretty flawless for about five years but quit recently and won't boot. Tried w/o hard drive, with two different hard drives, checked both NVR and camera power supplies, nothing on the board look fried and the caps look new. Fan comes on and hard drive spins up but no "beep" and nothing on HDMI output or video out. Can't access through Smart PSS, no video. Ideas? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sentience Security S 0 Posted October 9, 2017 Your hard drive is dead. That’s about how long those cheap Costco systems last (if you are lucky). They probably didn’t use a surviallance level hard drive and the thing finally just crapped out. No hard drive, no operating system, no OS no boot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drkailey 0 Posted October 9, 2017 Thanks for the reply but I was told by Q-See support (and read) it should boot w/o the hard drive. Apparently it's a re-branded Dahua. Is it possible to re-load the firmware if it doesn't boot? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sentience Security S 0 Posted October 9, 2017 So the BIOS must be stored on non volotile memory. There won’t be a way to push a firmware update if you can’t get the system to boot. Probably time for a new NVR. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
