The best indication of what is wrong is usually in the event store. If you do a show events from the cli, and then stop/start blocking ( either from idm or another cli session), you should see arc connecting to all it's devices. Any connection issu...

As far as I know, no you can't boot it from the flash. If you did somehow modify the flash, you may have made the module unuseable. Can you get back to the prompt where you did the password recovery? (after typing *** during boot up). If not, you ...

You may have run into the hard drive issue. To find out you have to power off the nm-cids for 15 minutes. If you can power down the whole router, that would be best. Then power it back up and see if the nm-cids will boot.

From the cli, do a show ver. Does it have a valid serial number and is there a following line saying "No license present"?

If it is in front of the router, you should see events where the sig will fire. You should NOT see any more events from ARC saying it has successfully added a block to the router. If you look at idm/monitoring, you should see the block time being r...