Ix4-300 fan keeps running full blast and the NAS never comes online

When I turn on the ix4-300 after a couple of seconds its fan starts running full blast but the NAS never comes online. The NAS lcd was damaged in the move so I don't know what is going on, it was working fine for a couple of weeks (with the damaged lcd) but this started happening a few days ago. Things that I've tried:
Used the other ix4-300 (I've 2) with the faulty NAS... same result
Let the NAS run with full FANS for 4 plus hours ......, Still didn't come online
Also both the blue and white light are constant .... no blinking whatsoever.
Any ideas ...
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It could be the device itself. Is it covered by the warranty?
Are you concerned about retrieving the data or do you just want the device back up and running properly?
If you are not concerned about data, you can try the following procedure at your own risk:
Power down the device and reseat all the drives in the device. Power the device back on.
If this doesn’t allow unit to boot, continue with below process.
   1. Turn off the device and pull out all the drives.
   2. Place any other drive 2, 3 or 4 in the first slot and boot up the device.
   3. Wait for sometime as the boot-up process can be slow.
         a. If it doesn’t boot, try another disk in slot 1.
   4. If it boots up correctly, insert another disk in slot 2.
        - Check UI for disk detection.
        a. If second disk is detected, turn it off, place disk 3 and 4 in unit and boot up.
        b. If it doesn’t boot-up correctly, remove 3 or 4 and retry. You may need to try to determine if 3 or 4 is bad in this case.
   5. Recreate the volume if it doesn’t start regenerating automatically
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