Samsung 250GB SSD, 970 EVO Plus, M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen3 for ROCK
Samsung 4TB SSD, 870 EVO, 2.5 inch SATA III for internal storage
NUC is in a fanless Akasa Turing FX case
I have been enjoying Roon since late October last year with my first ROCK build. Everything has been working perfectly this whole time, except for today when I noticed that the ROCK was switched off. I had been listening with ARC as well as on my MacBook Pro M1 Max all day. Went to have lunch and saw my ROCK was off!
The LED on the ethernet port is working, and other internal lights seem to be on, but the power button is not working, nor is the SSD light flickering.
Nothing to show when hooking up to a monitor via HDMI (naturally… the unit won’t turn on…).
Could my board have failed, or would it just be the SSD? I’m not overly tech savvy so please excuse my ignorance about these matters.
I would start with the SSD. do you have an external drive you can boot to so you can confirm? If other lights are visible on the NUC it leads me to believe there’s a component failure, not the whole system.
This inability to power on the NUC seems not to be too rare a malfunction. Doing some googling and looking at the support docs on Intel, it could be an issue with the CMOS. Intel® NUC Not Powering On
I can’t have a look until the weekend or early next week, hopefully it’s just a case of disconnecting and reconnecting the CMOS battery. Might just change it over. Disassembling the fanless case will be fun…
ah didn’t realize you don’t have power to the NUC. When you replace the CMOS it will nuke all saved bios settings FYI, but will hopefully allow you to boot.