12gen N-series Nas motherboard (topton, cwwk, ... )
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Thanks for the warning. I also read that post (and the whole thread for the past week) but I assume that he just took some random 12V ATX cable that seemed to fit. I couldn't find any cables with the right pinout here in germany, so I made my own as I described in my post above.
The wiring problem was also discussed in this post: https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...nas-motherboard-topton-cwwk.42432/post-413523.
His Topton N305 Board comes with one combined sata-pwr/data cable that goes to one small power connector to the board (I think SATA_PWR3 + 4). But that was to short to be used with his case...
And as the board sellers on Ali Express say that these connectors can be used to power hard drive backplanes I assume I am on the safe side. Nothing seems to get overly warm.
well separation of concerns would be a good thing to apply here, as your hdd cost significantly more than the price of the motherboard.
you might need a decent 18 gauge wire
Unfortunately this one doesn't work with the BKHD board. I see BKHD have the NIC drivers on their website, but no other drivers.
- Create a bootable usb stick with Ventoy
- Copy the iso file in the empty partition created by Ventoy
- Boot "server" from usb stick
- Select the iso file
- When countdown comes, press any key to stop it
- At this point there is a different from the video (minute 1:50), probably there is a problem in our script: the procedure doesn't start, you have to launch it manually (type 1.nsh and it starts).
- Wait the end
- When prompt comes back, type "reset"
- Remove the usb stick during reboot
- Enjoy!
About BIOS... I'm wondering if the BIOS updates are compatible between all these brands (topton, cwwk etc).
I can't find other info, but I found only this page where CWWK push BIOS update here: https://pan.x86pi.cn
I've the i3-n305 of Topton, can anyone tell me which of these bios is the right one?
I can't find other info, but I found only this page where CWWK push BIOS update here: https://pan.x86pi.cn
I've the i3-n305 of Topton, can anyone tell me which of these bios is the right one?
I have the same and I've updated using this one
To be sure: what is the "Project Version" in your bios main page?
Oh, I hadn't noticed it was there a folder "n305..NAS...", thank you.
The "Project Version" in the BIOS is CW-ADLN-NAS-V10.
I suppose the v10 version it's the first one and the latest is "2024.03.05.iso"
This is not a power supply connector for your Board. This is
On this Board it is a power supply:
But for this one it is for the two Output connectors:
I suspect it can be but cannot say 100% not having actually tried
I received the board this week and have started doing a little poking around with a multimeter...
- the two black 4 pin sockets give 12v and 5v and using the 4pin to SATA cable provided SATA drives work nicely
- whereas the white 4 pin socket just gives 19v which matches what is being provided by the DC power supply, hence I think either socket can be used as an input
Updated my N305 non dc Cwwk bios to 2024.03.05. Went smoothly.
I noticed the following changes:
- boot beeping sound shortend
- fixed screen display on boot. Now I have picture at all time
- enabled c-states and observed proxmox has starting issue every second time, but maybe due to pve 8.0 and 8.1 hangs on boot. Did not test this intensively and I don't see a change in power consumption, but I am also running firewall and multiple containers.
I noticed the following changes:
- boot beeping sound shortend
- fixed screen display on boot. Now I have picture at all time
- enabled c-states and observed proxmox has starting issue every second time, but maybe due to pve 8.0 and 8.1 hangs on boot. Did not test this intensively and I don't see a change in power consumption, but I am also running firewall and multiple containers.
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Odroid just launched a n97/305 board with 4xSATA (and 4 power) via an unnamed SATA controller, 1 m.2 PCIe 3.0 x 4 and 2x2.5 gb LAN: ODROID-H4 ULTRA – ODROID , finally some proper idle powers are shown.
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Hello everyone,
I've read through the 19 pages but I cannot find the answers I'm looking for.
I have a BKHD N100 (BKHD-1264-NAS) with NVMe 256GB for the OS and a NVMe 2TB for data, thus I'm not using the builtin JMB585. Do you know how I can disable it from the BIOS to save even more some watts? Also, what do you guys do to reduce the power consumption at maximum?
I am using a Mini-Box picoPSU 80W (+ a 4 pins 12V CPU power cable I made myself, I forgot to order it and didn't want to pay the shipping fees for a 1€ cable) and the server is idling at about 13.8W with 14 docker containers on Debian 12.5. A part from disabling the audio interface, I didn't change anything, or at least none that could change the power draw.
Using `power-top` autotune freezes the system at some point, maybe because of the I226-V. Manually changing the values let me get an insignificant 0.2W less.
Thanks
my containers:
I've read through the 19 pages but I cannot find the answers I'm looking for.
I have a BKHD N100 (BKHD-1264-NAS) with NVMe 256GB for the OS and a NVMe 2TB for data, thus I'm not using the builtin JMB585. Do you know how I can disable it from the BIOS to save even more some watts? Also, what do you guys do to reduce the power consumption at maximum?
I am using a Mini-Box picoPSU 80W (+ a 4 pins 12V CPU power cable I made myself, I forgot to order it and didn't want to pay the shipping fees for a 1€ cable
) and the server is idling at about 13.8W with 14 docker containers on Debian 12.5. A part from disabling the audio interface, I didn't change anything, or at least none that could change the power draw.Using `power-top` autotune freezes the system at some point, maybe because of the I226-V. Manually changing the values let me get an insignificant 0.2W less.
Thanks
my containers:
Hi,
do you have resolved the proxmox issue? I'm stuck on "'loading initial ramdisk'" (PVE 8.1).
EDIT: after a bios reset proxmox is started without problem (I rebooted 2/3 times and make all settings in bios)
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No, I did not. It seemed to boot correctly every second time. Now it's been running for about a week.
Did you enable c states as well after bios reset?
Hi all. I encountered this problem - I have a CW-N100-NAS-DC board, when I plug in the AXE3000H combo card into the Mini PCI-E, only Bluetooth is visible in the system, Wi-Fi is not visible. I checked the card myself on the laptop, it is fully working. 100% the option to enable Wi-Fi is disabled in the BIOS. I've looked through the entire BIOS and can't find anywhere how to turn on Wi-Fi. Help me please.