Good morning,
Last week I took delivery of another Supermicro X10SL7-F for my home LAN - this for use as a VM/Deployment server. Since this is my second go around with this board - I am familiar with it's quirks - especially the bloody fans roaring up and down every 5 seconds after the board is powered up and fans attached.
I am also very familiar with adjusting these fans via IPMIUTIL and when I build the box last week - I was able to correctly reset the thresholds and get the fans humming along at a nice quiet pace. The box behaved nicely for 2 or three days last week.
But heading into this weekend - we were going out of town so I powered all the servers off. When we got back yesterday - I power everything back up. My main server (built in April 2016 with a Supermicro X10SL7-F) came back on line quietly as it should. The new build however - came back up with fans wailing away at full blast.
So I pulled the box out of the rack and spent about 2 hours messing around with several versions of IPMIUTIL (v 3.02) and thought I had the fans settled down again. I put the box back in the rack, powered it up and all was well.
Then I wake up and come into my home office this morning with a cup of Joe and see the fans blasting away again. Logs indicate a sudden shift in the CPU fan at around 1:20am to Above Critical - which I do not understand.
What is my next move to get this thing under control? I cannot have the fans wailing away at 1500RPM for months on end.
I am using the stock Intel PWM fan - plugged into FAN1
I have Noctua NF-A14-PWM in FAN 2 and FAN 3
and a Noctua NF-S12A-PWM plugged into FAN4
I think I may need to reset the CPU fan via IPMIUTIL but have no idea what the threshold values should be?
I uploaded a screencap of the fan readings via the IPMI web interface - and they are seriously messed up. (see attachment)
Appreciate any tips or tricks from the field.
Cheers!
VP
Last week I took delivery of another Supermicro X10SL7-F for my home LAN - this for use as a VM/Deployment server. Since this is my second go around with this board - I am familiar with it's quirks - especially the bloody fans roaring up and down every 5 seconds after the board is powered up and fans attached.
I am also very familiar with adjusting these fans via IPMIUTIL and when I build the box last week - I was able to correctly reset the thresholds and get the fans humming along at a nice quiet pace. The box behaved nicely for 2 or three days last week.
But heading into this weekend - we were going out of town so I powered all the servers off. When we got back yesterday - I power everything back up. My main server (built in April 2016 with a Supermicro X10SL7-F) came back on line quietly as it should. The new build however - came back up with fans wailing away at full blast.
So I pulled the box out of the rack and spent about 2 hours messing around with several versions of IPMIUTIL (v 3.02) and thought I had the fans settled down again. I put the box back in the rack, powered it up and all was well.
Then I wake up and come into my home office this morning with a cup of Joe and see the fans blasting away again. Logs indicate a sudden shift in the CPU fan at around 1:20am to Above Critical - which I do not understand.
What is my next move to get this thing under control? I cannot have the fans wailing away at 1500RPM for months on end.
I am using the stock Intel PWM fan - plugged into FAN1
I have Noctua NF-A14-PWM in FAN 2 and FAN 3
and a Noctua NF-S12A-PWM plugged into FAN4
I think I may need to reset the CPU fan via IPMIUTIL but have no idea what the threshold values should be?
I uploaded a screencap of the fan readings via the IPMI web interface - and they are seriously messed up. (see attachment)
Appreciate any tips or tricks from the field.
Cheers!
VP
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