The problem was the PSU. When I took it out of the case and watched the system boot. During boot, a few seconds after startup, the PSU fan would stop and start again. The PSU Zalman ZM600-HP 600W was from a working PC that had an ASUS MB with an Intel Quad processor and was consuming much more load than the current MB. I connected the PSU Dell NSP-525AB and all problems were solved.
12gen N-series Nas motherboard (topton, cwwk, ... )
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Hello,
Thank you.
- Can I attach Intel X520-10G-2S-X8 dual SFP+ 10G NIC to the extra PCIe slot on the purple board?
- This had an option of a low profile/standard profile, how do I find out, which one is the correct one for me?
- How do I check how much bandwidth does that PCIe lane have? Can it do 10G or close to 10G?
- I was trying to fit two of these in a dual mini ITX board rack mount, how do I check whether if attaching the above Intel NIC will still allow this to fit into a 2U chassis or shall I need more?
- The case also has an option to add a riser card, do I need that to use the NIC?
Thank you.
Thank you so much for feedback. What could be a better use of that PCIe slot in this case? Just curious.
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I was scared by this reported finding, so I went ahead and measured the gap using strips of paper--put the paper between the cleaned dies and copper block, slid it out to feel for contact, and reduced the strip count until no resistance was felt. On my recently purchased CW-NAS-ADLN-K V10 (purple N100), I could feel two sheets but not one, so based on my caliper measurements of my paper thickness, I'm thinking my gap is between 0.15mm and 0.3mm.
I also found out that since copper plate sits a bit high, so if you tighten any heatsink too much it will bend the board alot.
I didn't have any TIM so kinda plattered grease and hope it doesn't flow out...
Set my CWWK purple N305 board up earlier. Couple of hiccups (wouldn't boot from USB, turned out the USB had become corrupted and needed a new unRaid install). But other than that all working well.
The one issue I do have, however, is that my case fans always seem to be on Max. I have a Fractal Node 304 case with a Noctua NF-A14 PWM in the back and 2 NF-A9 PWMs in the front. When I checked the BIOS, both CPU and system fans seem to be set to Automatic but case fans stay on Max. Any ideas?
The one issue I do have, however, is that my case fans always seem to be on Max. I have a Fractal Node 304 case with a Noctua NF-A14 PWM in the back and 2 NF-A9 PWMs in the front. When I checked the BIOS, both CPU and system fans seem to be set to Automatic but case fans stay on Max. Any ideas?
was discussed before, read older posts, 2 of the fan headers have PWM ( shows as fan2 and fan3), 3-rd one is 100% only, see if you are plugged in properly.
You can also control the fans in software if you install the proper drivers, my case fans are HDD temp dependents.
You can also control the fans in software if you install the proper drivers, my case fans are HDD temp dependents.
Ah must not have spotted that. I tried searching but obviously did a bad job of it (searching PWM doesn't get me much), and 47 pages is a lot to just read! My guess is I put the rear fan in the 100% connector. I might connect it to the manual fan speed controller instead then
EDIT: I ended up buying a 3 way PWM splitter and it's working nicely now for my 3 case fans.
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Hello everyone,
further up someone posted a snippet that indicated that CWWK might have enabled the in-band ECC functionality that the i3-N305 provides.
Has anybody had success getting this to work? Any successful error correction/logged bit-flip event?
Cheers
further up someone posted a snippet that indicated that CWWK might have enabled the in-band ECC functionality that the i3-N305 provides.
Has anybody had success getting this to work? Any successful error correction/logged bit-flip event?
Cheers
Want to know if you got the HDD led working? I bought a different board, Green one, MW-N100-NAS, the labels are the same, but I cannot get HD LED to work, both directions.Hi all. Just got the CWWK N305 board (CW-ADLN-NAS, black board), running BIOS v2.22.1287. Paired it with a 16GB stick of Samsung M425R2GA3BBO-COKOL ram. No errors with Memtest (8 passes of all tests, c.6 hours total), so hopefully this will work well with the board.
One question: the board doesn't seem to be clear on which are the + and - pins for the PW LED and HD LED. How have you guys connected this? Don't want necessarily fry something.
Photo below (sorry for blurriness):
Mine worked straight away, think I got lucky as the labelling isn't very clear. Here's a photo
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i got the Jonsbo radiator that CWWK offered with N305 purple board, did you buy the same one?
would you recommend buying a thermal pad of 1mm to fill the gap?
thank you
Mine sat just fine although it did bend the board a little so I loosened it. There seems to only be one orientation that works well with it, unfortunately I don't have pictures handy but make sure you have it the right way around. I just used the thermal paste that came with it and haven't seen the CPU go much higher than 60 even when all cores are at full load.
Lucky for you. Mine didn't. I tested the cable with other leds, such as power led, lan 1-4, and I can confirm the led is not busted. I wonder if there's any setting in the bios to enable the hdd led.
I was looking for a PSU to power the following:
Background: I have a 2U case for housing the CWWK Purple N305 + 4 HDD - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CH3JXKZF/
- CWWK Purple Board (N305 + Jonsbo radiator) - with 2 SSD, 32 GB RAM - 30W(?)
- MG09 Toshiba HDD 18 TB SATA x 4 - consumes anywhere from 4.5W (Idle Type A) - 20W (at startup) - 80W at peak
Background: I have a 2U case for housing the CWWK Purple N305 + 4 HDD - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CH3JXKZF/
@ConcreteLlama do you find it takes a long time to boot with hard drives connected? Not sure if it's because of the Jmicron controller. I was also thinking if the Jmicron controller is the reason I'm not getting disk activity in the LED, as I don't have any m.2 connected to the board.