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    Baremetal Server only starts when monitor is connected

    in General Questions

    Posted

    Dear all,

    I have a problem with my Server. It is connected with starting it or doing a reboot.

    XPEnology is running with version 7.1.0-42661, loader tinycore-redpill, Option "1a" from this thread. Motherboard is an ASRock J3355B-ITX with 8GB DDR3-1333MHz. There are 6 WD Red harddrives installed (2 with 3TB, rest with 4TB).  4 of them are connected via an SATA extension card with the JMB585 chip. It looks exactly like this picture:

    71oyutSAspL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

     

     

     

    My problem is that if there is a power failure or a reboot, the server only starts / reboots when I connect a monitor to the HDMI output. If this is not the case, the server will not start at all. If I connect a monitor after starting, there is no video output - I can't see anything. The machine does not even request an IP from the router. When I plug out the energy cable and replug it again (monitor also attached and on) the system starts as it should. I can see the boot screen and then switching to USB, loading kernel etc.

    It almost seems as if the BIOS requires the presence of a monitor to start.

    ASRock said they did a test with this MB with Windows 10. They added a startup sound after Windows was booting up. They plugged out the HDMI cable and startet the machine. After half a minute they could here the installed startup sound  --> means the machine started without issues. With xpenology / a boot via USB seems not to work. Does someone has an idea how I can fix this?

    Of course, the server runs smooth without a monitor but when I am on the road and there is a problem, then my data is not accessible.

     

    Regards,

    Sascha

    Danke und liebe Grüße,

    Thank you and Kind Regards

    CPU Frequency scaling for DS918+

    in Software Modding

    Posted · Edited by suschmania

    Hello,

    I use an ASROCK j3355B-ITX board. I migrate from a HP Microserver N54L to this DIY solution. I set up the system very fine with Jun 104b / 918+ including patching the synoboot (vid/pid/sn/mac, extra.lzma...). Everything runs smooth EXCEPT  throttling the CPU. It always runs with 2.000 mhz which seems to be the basement frequency.

    I used different solutions including this script here but iam stucked with an all time 2.000 MHZ frequency OR 1.800 Mhz.

    It is a must have to activate intel speedstep in the bios, otherwise everything that checks the available frequencies fail.

    Also C state is set to C1. other settings seems to not change anything concerning the scaling (C1E, vt-d...).

     

    Without any script started: 

    dmidecode -t processor | grep Speed
        Max Speed: 2500 MHz
        Current Speed: 2000 MHz

    When i start the script via the task scheduler it seems like nothing is changed. When i start the script via SSH and parameters: the frequency shifts to 1.800 MHz but is still not scaling. It doesn't matter what settings i use for scalingminfreq or lowload, highload... The output is as following:

      

    cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
2000000 120442
1900000 0
1800000 4622
1700000 0
1600000 0
1500000 0
1400000 0
1300000 0
1200000 0
1100000 0
1000000 0
900000 0
800000 0

     

    cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies show me all available frequencies starting from 800000.

     

    As I don't need hardware transcoding i switched back to jun 1.03b and DS3617xs. Here i can change the governor - in my case conservative - and the scaling works perfectly.

    Therefore i used the already mentioned script by @sszpila from here as a user defined task in DSM that runs every 30 minutes: 

    #!/bin/sh
for c in $(ls -d /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*);
do if ! grep -q 'conservative' $c/cpufreq/scaling_governor ;
   then echo conservative >$c/cpufreq/scaling_governor ;
fi
done

     

    To my surprise, the power consumption is not changed (stays with 17W in idle (2 HDD attached). On my HP N54L with 5 HDD the power consumption shifted from 45W to 41W, idle/HDD spin down from 27W to 25W.

    Anyway i will stay on 3617 until a shift is a must have (maybe because of DSM 7.0, who knows...)

     

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    User Reported Compatibility Thread for DSM 6.2

    in User Reported Compatibility Thread & Drivers Requests

    Posted

    Loader version and type (918+):  1.04b2 DS918+

    DSM version in use (including critical update):  DSM 6.2.1-23824 Update 2

    Using custom modules/ramdisk? If yes which one?:  no

    Hardware details:  Motherboard:  Biostar J3060NH;  NIC:  Realtek RTL8111H

     

    Successfull fresh installation with DSM_DS918+_23739.pat + update inside System. Didn´t check Hardware transcoding, yet.

    Cheap "Out of the box" working Mobo+cpu como

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted

    Hello xpenology forum ,

    with pleasure i am using xpenology on an old HP Microserver N54L - everything is working!😃

    Now for my parents i want to build another NAS with XPenology. As the N54L / Microservers are quite old i will go for a custom "Motherboard with CPU" combo.

    The NAS will not do anything else than storing data as backup (with Cloud Station Server) and serving media files for a RaspberryPI. Only 2 HDDs should be installed in a Raid 1.

    My question is: Which "out of the box" combination will work directly without adding drivers for NIC, Graphic etc.? As AMD is not officially supported i will use an Intel CPU. I was thinking about an ASRock N3150DC-ITX or the ASRock J3455-ITX (where 4 internal SATA connections are available for a future update option).

    Otherwise i would go for a cheaper option like the Biostar J3060NH .

     

    Thank you :)

    HP N54L - DSM 6.1 onwards

    in AMD

    Posted · Edited by suschmania
    baremetal

    Hi @all,

    this is my first comment here. I have a HP 54L since 3 years now. Everything is fine. 30 min ago i updated my Version 6.0.2 to 6.1.2 15132 (with hp server n36l-n54l.zip, baremetal)

    I have done all steps explained earlier here (VID/PID, also SN and MAC, C1E, force install...)

    I have 4 HDDs WD Red 3TB with a RAID 5 volume.

     

    After installing the DSM (new installation, not migrate option) i was still able to access my files! They were recognized directly in the DSM and also the RAID volume was fine without problems. I was able to write and read from the volume.

     

    Just for an information :smile:

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