I am by no means an expert and only have experience with this once. That being said, here are a couple suggestions of things I noticed when I was repairing my Synology unit and for you to check in your setup. 1. The Chinese SOIC clips are VERY finicky and I had to be very careful to make sure the clip was connected well to the Winbond IC and then I attempted not to move or touch anything.by PH3 - uBoot
I want to first thank Superchromix for the hints as I now have a working DS218+ :) It took a little bit to figure everything out and some learning Linux as well! I want to provide a little more detail for those people out there that may still have a problem. I am by no means an expert and only have experience with the DS218+ but here is what I did in more detail. Superchromix suggested the TLby PH3 - uBoot
Hey Superchromix I have the exact same situation with a Synology DS218+ (Dual core Celeron with Insyde BIOS) can you share with us what you did to fix your problem please? I had done the same troubleshooting steps when I found your post. I have the same serial port output with and without SO-DIMM memory as you did. I assumed that I was chasing a h/w (measured all power rails at inductors) orby PH3 - uBoot