CWWK i5-1235U 6 port i226 report

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beisser

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its a different thing. it only has 4 lan ports, so different mainboard. the bios from this thread wont work.

plus they dont ship to germany which disqualifies it for me. prices would be good though.
 
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So what would be disadvantage on the 4 port version ? Very high idle power because of no nodded bios available?

What about those 13th gen ones from other thread ? Looking through the posts they seem to be very problematic regarding cooling and their fan ?
 

beisser

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i dont see any disadvantage unless you need 6 lan ports.
you just cant use the bios from here.
as for idle power suage, we cant tell, since none of us own that particular device.

the price is good though.
 

DougQuaid

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Also seems to have only single nvme and sata port, the 6 port version has 2 nvme and 2 sata, with 4 drives it can be also poor man's NAS
 

beisser

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im using it with 4 drives right now. 2 1.6tb sata drives as zfs mirror for boot and vm-storage, 1 2tb nvme as plex media storage and 1 4tb nvme as backup datastore for my veeam (backups of physical desktops).

with the 4 port model this would not be possible
 

STHUserB

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Hello Everyone,

I have been using my unit for the last ~11 months as a bare-metal pfSense host. Has been excellent, performant and no reboots or issues. It is located within a well ventilated space with the original PSU connected to a UPS. Being bare-metal pfSense the resource utilisation is typically low.

Today, connectivity to the internet suddenly stopped, I went to look at the unit. The device was warm (not hot) and was in a powered off state. The PSU LED was lit (there is a blue Dajing led on the PSU). Tried some basic troubleshooting, PSU is fine in another system but another PSU does not power this unit up. Connecting the original PSU back into this system now just flashes the blue LED, the unit does not power on when the power button is pressed.

I think the unit's mainboard has failed.

The NVME drive is still readable so working on getting it up and running in an alternative machine.

Has anyone else had any issues like this, any tips on ways to get it to power back up? Did you reach out to CWWK for support and what was that experience like? Thanks in advance.
 

CWWK_N305

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All open source:


Changing HWP can be done with a Hex editor, but I wrote a small python script to do it.
Could you a short description what of these tools is needed to get the console redirect option?
I have a diff model and dont know these tools, but the console redirection would really help me.
I have the bios bin file of my model, any tips would be appriciated.
 

Tiraga

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Ok, they want me to send it back. Guess that will take some time, hopefully i get a replacment or fixed one.
So after a couple of month i finally got my machine back and its working again but with the locked bios ofc. Now I am not sure if i should or even could try to install the provided bios. My board is a CW-MBX-AD12 and the build date is AD12R20231204 version 2.22.1288
What do you guys think?
 

enzotekk

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Hello everyone.
The recent hot summer days forced me to make a small modification to the case. I completely redid the two pieces of side sheet metal, so the part where there are the ethernet ports and the other one where there are the USB sockets.

I then used a pvc mesh canvas on Aliexpress. It's working well I have a few degrees less than before.
I didn't have precision tools so as you can see from the photos the work is not perfect.
 

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beisser

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thats looking fairly decent for no precision tools :)
i didnt noticed any bad increase in temperature.
my proxmox server is still running at around 38-42 celsius (with an ambient of 28 celsius).

i also have a fan blowing down on the unit.
 

Tzvia

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Lol looks better than the two fans (top and bottom) I mounted to mine with zip ties and velcro like a sandwich. And it turns out my cable modem was the one overheating after that so I zip tied a fan to the side, right against the meager vent holes. It would start dropping packets out of the blue and I thought it was my router but the issue followed the ethernet that the modem was connected to...
 

enzotekk

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At first I wanted to put another Noctua fan underneath like you @Tzvia but then I thought about this possible modification and I said to myself... why not!