12gen N-series Nas motherboard (topton, cwwk, ... )
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Please verify / correct the actual Model# of the RAM you used.
Do you think maybe using 2 sticks to get to 32GB may work?
Hey Folks, i have a silly question about SATA HDDs wont show up, neither in BIOS nor in the OS (somehow selfexplaining).
My Setup is a topton N100 Board CW-ADLN-NAS / Crucial 32GB DDR5 / 4 HDD HUH721010ALE600 10TB / 1 HDD 16TB / 1 SSD SATA 512GB / 1 SSD 2TB Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD, M.2
6 Devices are hooked up on the JMB585 (including the native one) The SATA SSD is on the native port, the 16TB HDD resides on SATA port 2 (JMB585).
Three devices are accesible (SATA SSD / HDD / NVME SSD) all the 4 10TB HDD are not visible.
The M.2 SSD is equipped with a WIN 11 (no problems beside the HDD issue)
The SATA SSD runs with a Linux Mint (no problems beside the HDD issue)
I tried another SATA cable - the disks are spinning - seems to be a problem with the controller and the sort of HDD?!
Can i set something on the BIOS to get it working? (loaded defaults - no effect)
Thank you in advance
best Sebastian
My Setup is a topton N100 Board CW-ADLN-NAS / Crucial 32GB DDR5 / 4 HDD HUH721010ALE600 10TB / 1 HDD 16TB / 1 SSD SATA 512GB / 1 SSD 2TB Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD, M.2
6 Devices are hooked up on the JMB585 (including the native one) The SATA SSD is on the native port, the 16TB HDD resides on SATA port 2 (JMB585).
Three devices are accesible (SATA SSD / HDD / NVME SSD) all the 4 10TB HDD are not visible.
The M.2 SSD is equipped with a WIN 11 (no problems beside the HDD issue)
The SATA SSD runs with a Linux Mint (no problems beside the HDD issue)
I tried another SATA cable - the disks are spinning - seems to be a problem with the controller and the sort of HDD?!
Can i set something on the BIOS to get it working? (loaded defaults - no effect)
Thank you in advance
best Sebastian
I have the i3-N305 NAS "Monsterboard" by CWWK (CWWK N100/i3-N305 six-bay NAS monster board/4x 2.5G/6x SATA3.0/2x M.2 NVMe/115X radiator ITX board type motherboard)
It says that the PCIe slot is shared with the second M.2 Slot. First of all, which one is the second M.2 slot (one closest to CPU or furthest away EDIT: I found out the slot closest to CPU is "Slot 1")? And secondly, how do I activate the PCIe slot? I plugged in a PCIe adapter that I know works, but it's not detected.
I went into the BIOS and changed what I thought was the proper setting but it still doesn't work. (i.imgur.com/Gi0aP1Z.jpeg)
Is there something that I'm missing here?
I asked the question to CWWK but haven't heard back yet. I thought someone here might know if they have this board.
EDIT:
I did some more testing and I tried:
I thought it might be a power issue through the port, but why would a GT 710 work but an LSI controller or NVMe to M.2 adapter not work? Surely those can't draw more power than the GPU.
I know the LSI card was getting power because the controller was getting hot. But disks connected were not detected at all. I put the same controller in my desktop PC and it works just fine. The devices also show up in Windows device manager but just don't work.
It really sucks if this port can only provide like 5-7W of power for some stupid reason. It would make the port pretty much unusable.
It seems you don't need to manually select which port to use, it just defaults to the M.2 slot if there is a device in the M.2 #2 slot and in the PCIe slot.
It says that the PCIe slot is shared with the second M.2 Slot. First of all, which one is the second M.2 slot (one closest to CPU or furthest away EDIT: I found out the slot closest to CPU is "Slot 1")? And secondly, how do I activate the PCIe slot? I plugged in a PCIe adapter that I know works, but it's not detected.
I went into the BIOS and changed what I thought was the proper setting but it still doesn't work. (i.imgur.com/Gi0aP1Z.jpeg)
Is there something that I'm missing here?
I asked the question to CWWK but haven't heard back yet. I thought someone here might know if they have this board.
EDIT:
I did some more testing and I tried:
- PCIe to NVMe M.2 SSD adapter with various SSD's: didn't work (no signs of life at all)
- LSI 9211-8i SATA controller: didn't work (but controller chip got hot and detected in Windows Device Manager)
- SATA Controller Card (JMicron/ASmedia? Don't remember): worked
- GT 710 GPU (no external power): worked
- GTX 1050 Ti GPU (no external power): didn't work, but fans came on
I thought it might be a power issue through the port, but why would a GT 710 work but an LSI controller or NVMe to M.2 adapter not work? Surely those can't draw more power than the GPU.
I know the LSI card was getting power because the controller was getting hot. But disks connected were not detected at all. I put the same controller in my desktop PC and it works just fine. The devices also show up in Windows device manager but just don't work.
It really sucks if this port can only provide like 5-7W of power for some stupid reason. It would make the port pretty much unusable.
It seems you don't need to manually select which port to use, it just defaults to the M.2 slot if there is a device in the M.2 #2 slot and in the PCIe slot.
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Hi, sorry, looks like the case of my iphone not copying the text correctly from the photo I took! The model number is "M425R2GA3BB0-CQKOL". I also ran the Memtest 86+ v7.0.0 recently for a total of 32 hours and that passed too.
The motherboard only has 1 ram slot, so that answers your question there.
Separately, has anyone found a solution for getting Proxmox stuck at "'loading initial ramdisk'"? I see this even with a clean PVE 8.2 install. It works fine with the BIOS set to defaults, but there's a couple of settings I'd like to change in the BIOS.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you contact them? I tried their online form and chat. I got a chat response then when I asked my question, I never got another response back. I haven't seen another way to contact them.
I asked them about it but so far no response. I also find it weird and I tried all of the available PCIe settings in the BIOS with no success. The PCIe link just breaks after some seconds according to the kernel logs. lspci also reports weird stuff on the integrated ASM1166 controller with ASPM enabled. Right now I'm running a second ASM1166 in the PCIe slot with one HDD connected and a 980 Pro in the m.2 slot. The board idles at around 9W in this config.