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Black Armor drive stopped being discoverable as a server.

July 12th, 2015, 20:24

This morning, two amber lights showed on my Black Armor NAS 110.
Two resets and unplugging power and LAN cables did not change anything , except only one amber light shows (the drive light). The other LED is not lit.
When I start Black Armor Discovery, it says it can't find any server.
I tried "repairing" Black Armor Discovery, but that didn't change anything.

The drive still works as a drive: I can manually access the non-password protected directories and copy files to other drives via Windows Explorer. It seems to be a problem with the system directory in which my system backups are stored.

Black Armor Backup still works; I successfully created another System Backup which I stored on the Public (shared) directory ("Z" drive).

Went into Device Manager, where the NAS has a yellow alert triangle. None of options were relevant.

Tried typing the fixed I.P. address into my browser, but it just did a Google search on it rather than actually pinging the NAS.

What do I try next?
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