Archon Issue - Lost All Modules

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Over the past few days my Archon would shut down randomly. All of the modules would be disconnected and the only thing visible would be the Archon. I would pull power to the head unit and take it off the bus, plug it back in and for a day it would power up and show all modules again. I pulled the drive and received an error message saying the drive needed repairs; I would have Windows repair it and all seemed well.

Friday the head unit was disconnected from the modules but this time the reset did not work. The drive still has errors and my tank is running only the skimmer and return pumps and my reactor pumps are running of a power bar. I sent in a help request to DA but will need to wait until Monday for their response.

I reset my internet connection (the Archon is hard wired to the router) but that didn't solve anything. I realized that the Archon outputs and inputs that reside on the module show up so the internet connection isn't the problem. If the drive is bad I did make a backup of the files. But if I replace the drive would I be copying the bad files onto it causing the same issue?

Let me know what you think.
 
Could be your usb going out. Try loading files on a new usb. You may need to do factory reset to clear it all out too just to make sure once u toss a new drive in there.
 
Do I do a factory reset with the usb drive out? I don’t want to loose all my programming
 
Well first try just a whole new usb. If that does not work next step would be a full reset and yes, reprogram. Justin case the files on the USB corrupted when it went down and are thus not losing well into the archon on boot.
 
Turns out I have a bad PC4 that caused the system to detach all modules from the Archon. Eric was very helpful and walked me through a lot of checks to arrive at this cause. I learned a lot about how the system files work on this unit. Now I need to get the PC4 repaired. Fortunately nothing is tied into it at the moment.
 

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