Hikvision 7616-E2 8P - won't power on?

[pbc]

Just received this unit last week from Ali. Got around to plugging it in today. Used an old 500gb hard drive I had lying around and plugged the data and power cables into it from the NVR.

Plugged it into a monitor, then turned on the 7616.

The fan on the unit turns on, but that's it. No power led light on the front, and I get no signal to my monitor.

Is it simply DOA (which I'm sure is going to be a pain but I guess a pitfall of buying off Ali), or am I missing some simple step?

Thanks!

 

[alastairstevenson]

That does not sound good.
Presumably you've removed the HDD and checked what happens without it.
Do you have the red LED lit next to the SATA connectors?

 

[Michelin Man]

Did you check the internal power connector from the PSU? Sometimes they're not fully seated.

If you have a multimeter or test light you coudl check to see if powers actually coming out of the PSU on the yellow and black wires.

 

[reeves1985]

Just received this unit last week from Ali. Got around to plugging it in today. Used an old 500gb hard drive I had lying around and plugged the data and power cables into it from the NVR.

Plugged it into a monitor, then turned on the 7616.

The fan on the unit turns on, but that's it. No power led light on the front, and I get no signal to my monitor.

Is it simply DOA (which I'm sure is going to be a pain but I guess a pitfall of buying off Ali), or am I missing some simple step?

Thanks!

First thing
See if it responds to pings

And the sequence of pings if it does

This could indicate its in a boot loop

If it responds to pings then that's good I believe the default up will be 192.0.0.64 if it's newer they changed the default up I believe but can't remember what it is of the top of my head

 

[pbc]

That does not sound good.
Presumably you've removed the HDD and checked what happens without it.
Do you have the red LED lit next to the SATA connectors?

You are a Genius my friend. Unplugging the hard drive gets it to power on.

But why would that be? Hard drive is an old Seagate Momentus 7200.4, hybrid drive.

 

[pbc]

Fascinating. Definitely the hard drive as I just slipped it into my laptop and my laptop wouldn't power on either with that drive inserted.

Never experienced that before! Guess I will have to wait for my WD Purple to come in this week.