A bit more detail regarding my attempt to reloading firmware on to my TS-QVH12TL/R6 NAS:
Since there was that drive noise in bay 2 of the NAS, I replace that drive with a 640gb spare drive as I did not have a spare 1tb drive.I have and upon hitting the reset button and the On/Off button, the POST error did not appear or the ERROR light being lit. I don't know if there is a requirement that all the drives need to be the same size or not.
I have also read somewhere on the forums that says I need to remove all partitions when trying to reinstalling drives / firmware..
I have also tried to put a laptop, separate router (not attached to internet), and the NAS all on the same subnet (192.168.11.x) and the NAS Navigator2 was unable to find the NAS.
People in the know, please chime in with answers to my questions and if all possible provide me with a USB recovery / initialized flash drive (or ISO image) to have it boot off USB.. I can at least get to the point to have the NAS boot up and show up in NAS Navigator2 and assign it an IP address in the same subnet as my home LAN.