CWWK 6 Nic n305 troubleshooting

[greenkiwi]

Hi,

I recently purchased a 6 nic n305 based system from CWWK along with some RAM that is supposed to be crucial DDR5 ram. (Curcial.com said they would validate it with photos of the back/front).

At any rate, I have installed the RAM and M.2 drive and the box has only posted to the BIOS once. And it showed both the RAM at 32gb and the SSD.

Without the ram installed, it give beeps (Long, short short shot). With the RAM installed, it seems to sometimes make a single beep and show the hdd light flash once. Other times it doesn't. My monitor sometimes cycles through the inputs as if it the device were in a continuous boot loop.

The monitor is a 32" 4k samsung. I don't know if there are compatibility issues with it?

Is there a key sequence to help drive it into the BIOS settings?

Should I try the reset button? Does one hold it down while restarting/powering on?

Thanks for the help (and I'm happy to put this into an existing thread if that's better.)

Some additional notes -- sometimes after 1-2 minutes, it has a single beep and the hdd light flashes. But then it just goes back into what seems like the boot cycle.

 

[greenkiwi]

So it seems to be consistently getting to the Proxmox install screen, but doesn't seem to be getting any keyboard input

I'm not sure if I should try something else?

 

[Becks0815]

I don't have these issues, but I know these machines can be picky with the attached monitor. Guess you need to check the N100 thread (first part of the many pages) to see if/which HDMI or Displayport monitor must be attached to result in some output.

Then I would hard reset the Bios (hope there is a "clear Bios" switch), plug in only the RAM and turn it on. It might take some time until the RAM has been tested (sevaral minutes maybe), but you should get a screen output. If this is not the case, the last straw is to test a different RAM module from a good vendor (and not Aliexpress).

 

[greenkiwi]

I'm trying to find some RAM to test it with before ordering new RAM. Bummer there aren't two slots.

I kinda which I'd just purchased a box with RAM already.