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The box seems to be continously booting:
Power-LED on, 10s later WLAN LED on, sometime HDD-LED is blinking, after 20s WLAN LED off, very short off of POWER-LED, after 3s the WLAN is on again.
If I disconnect HDD WL-HDD seems to work.
Why can even a wrong disc cause reboot?
Do you use standard Asus firmware or for instance Oleg's?
Oleg's firmware loads partly from harddisk so that might explain strange boot sequences when something is wrong.
Standard Asus firmware should boot with a faulty hard disk I guess but maybe not. Can you try and connect the HDD to another system and see what it does?
Ernst