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Mine sits at 40+ all the time even though lm-sensors reports low 30s.

The HP360T is a great card, you can still make it work.. 2 options... 1. Modify the slot with an exacto-knife or 2. Buy this: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Express-Profile-Extension-Adapter/dp/B0039XPS5W

I built a new nas using a SuperMicro C7B250-CB-ML w/i7-7700/32gb ram. I added an old Intel 1000PT and it's working just fine on 918+ 7.0.1. I run one docker (Tautulli) and 1 VM (Valheim Server using debian). I did have to install opkg (lmsensor support) via command line, but otherwise, it's working great.

Has anyone tried this driver?

Will it boot to the USB if you have no hard drives installed? Normally XPE has no boot partition on hard drives so it can't boot from them. If you have an existing OS on the hard drives it may detect and run that. If it will boot XPE with no hard drives installed, try wiping the drive you want to use and then reinstall it and boot. According to the screen shot in your first post, the USB is detected as a boot device so it "should" move on to the next boot device till a boot is successful.

You're not wrong of course, but hardware continues to improve and new features are no longer compatible. Since my 10th gen i3 wont work (plex transcoding, etc) I had to buy older stuff to get my desired outcome (4c/8t). That used i7-7700 and an older motherboard cost more than the i3-10100 and motherboard and it's technically slower. I've been using Xpenology since 5.x, I use it instead of something like Unraid or OpenMediaVault because I have official Synology units and love the ecosystem. Folks like IG88 and others have done standout work getting us compatibility drivers for newer nics, HBAs, IGP etc for use above baseline installs. Regarding virtual machines, I'm not a huge fan of using them. I like them in my OS for use, but not as the primary hypervisor with multiple OS or containers running off of them. If our only way forward for 6.2.4/7.0 is via VM so be it, but many users are not going to want to dig that deep to get it to work. Even ESXi 7.0u2 is not compatible out of the box and required some finagling to get a 2.5g driver installed on the z490 motherboard I attempted with. I finally gave up and decided to drop 350$ for a used 7700 cpu/mobo to run baremetal.

Not sure what 7.0 will give us aside from some minor updates aesthetically and functionally. DSM 7 for my 1621+ still is only on kernel 4.4.180. To be able to use XPE 918+ with more current hardware we're going to need a newer kernel.

I have read on the web that the 10th gen and newer have different firmware from 9series and earlier, and that might be part of the problem.

Definitely have u3 installed (but tried manually installing the baseline 6.2.3 and subsequent updates by blocking internet, then using one of the earlier mod drivers from the first post, same outcome). A fresh install of XPE automatically downloads/updates 6.2.3u3. (although I think I was getting 6.2.4 from install at one point this morning as the system would fail to boot on first reboot, I went through about 10 reinstalls before I just started with the 6.2.3 pat from Synology and let it update to u3 on its own.) The good news is I can recover the system easily by installing a discreet gpu as it disables the onboard iGPU, so all is not lost for testing. The lockup I experienced with this 10100 is the same that happened with the 10700. I wish Xpe would do proper log management (renaming .1, .2 etc) so we could see where it's hitting a snag part of the driver is loading: root@Xpenology:~# lsmod | grep i915 i915 1238212 0 drm_kms_helper 119660 1 i915 drm 304204 2 i915,drm_kms_helper iosf_mbi 4234 1 i915 fb 34811 2 i915,drm_kms_helper video 25321 1 i915 backlight 6096 2 i915,video button 4692 1 i915 i2c_algo_bit 5328 2 sfc,i915 I take that back, I was able to recover logs from when when it locked up. You can look and see if any of it is relevant. oops panic

I went out and bought a i3-10100 because it was reported to work on 918+ for transcoding Plex. Unfortunately i cannot get it to work at all. Steps I've done: 1. installed 918+ using the 1.04b loader and 13.3 driver file (because I have a 8125 2.5 GB nic.) Install goes off without a hitch, works perfectly. 2. I downloaded the most recent update to the i915.ko file "918plusdsm623u3i915mod2_1" 3. Extracted it, copied over an folder share then to /usr/lib/modules/. I give it the same properties as all the other .ko files (644) and changed ownership of it to root/root. 4. Rebooted, system does show the loader grub and the following screen. About 5s later the screen shuts off. And the system is not responsive at all. I am guessing the system hangs. So i reinstalled the system and instead of copying to /usr/lib/modules, I copy it to /root and then set the chmod and chown as the others. Then as I have seen others in this thread do, i used the insmod command to install it. The screen goes black and that is all she wrote, system is now locked up again. I have tried all 3 versions of the moded i915.ko file and they all result in the same crash/lock. If I put in a discreet video card, the system boots and runs normally. I can then remove the i915.ko and Xpenology works again without issue. Is the 13.3 driver set at fault here? Do i need to use an older version? I don't know how far back I would need to go to keep the rtl8125 driver.

So the CPU power stuff does work (bios setting) but the mod 2_1 driver is a hang on reboot after renaming/deleting the old i915.ko and copying over the new. I ran Passmark on it and it performs in between the 10700 HT ON and 9700K which is an 8C/8T chip

I may have the cpu clock issue fixed, will try tonight to see if it works. Only thing left is the i915 driver issue.

Are you trying to use it as cache (918+) or storage? Xpenology does not support M.2 NVME devices, only M.2 SATA

You're right, i should have typed M.2 not nvme. My motherboard does not take away a normal SATA port when I have a M.2 Sata device installed.

If your motherboard supports SATA nvme SSDs those will work however as they show up as normal SATA devices.

The network thing is cosmetic nothing more, not a priority. Regarding the iGPU, I stand ready to test whatever you need. The device is 9BC5, but you already knew that as I read your additional compiled modules thread. That thread you posted, I already commented in that it did not work. With the script running it only runs at full speed. Unfortunately that left me at 800mhz or full speed which does not mean full load, but it still caused it to use power and therefore create additional heat. I think the kernel lacks support for the 10th gen CPUs but I am not sure what else can be used, if I recall some of the default kernel switches for cpu frequency scaling are not compiled in, but maybe something could be added as a module. I'm trying to think but I recall powersave and conservative, and ondemand are usable in 3617 (which worked great) and only powersave and userspace are available on the 918+ Below is the default synoconfig for Apollolake # CPU Frequency scaling # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=m # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set # # CPU frequency scaling drivers # # CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE is not set # CONFIG_X86_PCC_CPUFREQ is not set CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=m # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8 is not set # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO is not set # CONFIG_X86_P4_CLOCKMOD is not set # # shared options # # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_LIB is not set # # CPU Idle # CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER=y CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU=y # CONFIG_ARCH_NEEDS_CPU_IDLE_COUPLED is not set # CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE is not set

I was able to get the 918+ build working with the 8125b as your addon driver does work for it, the lack of transcoding is where I stopped however. I would be willing to conduct any testing you'd like to try to get the iGPU working for transcoding. The system is in pieces at the moment and I have not done any data loading on it, so nothing is wasted or lost on my end. I also have a SATA M.2 disk for quick and easy testing of re-installs. Issues unresolved for a 918+ Build: 8125b and 219v are detected opposite in XPenology than they are in any other OS. Typically the 8125b is Nic1 and 219v is NIC2, in XPE it's the opposite, so my 8125b which I would prefer to be LAN1 is always LAN2 when both NICs are enabled in the bios. Power management needs work. The cpu scaling governors that work in 3617 are not available in 918+. Last I checked the 10700 was running full speed on a 918+ build, maybe with the more recent source you are able to get acpi-cpufreq working again.

So I failed to do my research and bought "too new" of a cpu to use as an Xpenology system. So I thought maybe not all is lost and can still make effective use of it. Virtualizing Xpenology and a linux VM Does anyone think I is possible to use ESXI as a host and then virtualize XPE and then whatever else I need? The board is an ASRock Z490M ITX that has both an RTL8125b and I219v. Splitting the 2.5gb off to the Xpe install and saving the 219v for the other VM(s). I would like to try to passthrough the intel gpu (i've seen it done on the internet) but, I am unsure if it works when virtualizing a 918+ for plex transcoding. The only other portion of XPE I would use would be some of the integrated hyper backup capabilities to back up my Synology units. All of my VM experience is through virtualbox; essentially zero knowledge with ESXI or any other VM host. I would pass through a couple of 3TB WD Reds for the storage portion of Xpenology Am I way out in left field or does anyone see this is a viable solution?

Is this going to get you a chance to see if the 8125b drivers will compile for the 3617xs? If so, I am standing by to test as needed.

in the xxx.vbox file you'll see the settings.. <VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.17-linux"> <Machine uuid="{xxx}" name="DietPi" OSType="Debian_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2021-01-19T00:59:58Z"> <MediaRegistry> <HardDisks> <HardDisk uuid="{xxx}" location="Clone-disk001.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal"/> </HardDisks> </MediaRegistry> <Hardware> <CPU count="4"> <PAE enabled="false"/> <NestedHWVirt enabled="true"/> <LongMode enabled="true"/> <X2APIC enabled="true"/> <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/> </CPU> <Memory RAMSize="4096"/> <Chipset type="ICH9"/> <Paravirt provider="KVM"/> <Boot> <Order position="1" device="HardDisk"/> <Order position="2" device="None"/> <Order position="3" device="None"/> <Order position="4" device="None"/> </Boot> <Display VRAMSize="16"/> <VideoCapture screens="1" file="." fps="25"/> <RemoteDisplay enabled="true"> <VRDEProperties> <Property name="TCP/Ports" value="3389"/> </VRDEProperties> </RemoteDisplay> Look for the Remote Display section.. in it you can view the current port for RDP and change if necessary. make sure the VM is powered off and backup the .vbox file before editing.

Is there any way I can help with this for the 3617? The driver source is "supposed" to work with 2.6 and above. 918 will work but it has issues: No cpu governor, even using the scalar script. I either get 800mhz or 8 core turbo, no in between. CPU support locked to 8c/8t

I am unable to get this to work on a 10th gen i7-10700. I get the task to run but it only puts the cpu at full turbo speed. With these newer cpus, there are 4-5 different settings in bios regarding speedstep, speedshift etc. Do I need to disable anything?

Sure, not an issue i have spare SSDs I can install whichever versions you need. Im hoping for the 3617 as I have 8c/16t cpu Edit: While I'd probably not use transcoding (my Synology 1621+ can do 3 1080p streams on its own) I can still help test.

My 8125 isnt getting an IP address. It is loading and detecting the onboard 2.5G I think, but I see the following bits in dmesg 1.03b on 3617XS with 11.2 driver extra.lzma [Fri Jan 15 13:11:10 2021] r8125 2.5Gigabit Ethernet driver 9.002.02-NAPI loaded [Fri Jan 15 13:11:10 2021] unknown chip version (64000000) [Fri Jan 15 13:11:10 2021] r8125 0000:02:00.0: irq 141 for MSI/MSI-X [Fri Jan 15 13:11:10 2021] r8125: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625. [Fri Jan 15 13:11:10 2021] r8125 Copyright (C) 2019 Realtek NIC software team <nicfae@realtek.com> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, please see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. [Fri Jan 15 13:11:00 2021] pci 0000:02:00.0: [10ec:8125] type 00 class 0x020000 [Fri Jan 15 13:11:00 2021] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 10: [io 0x3000-0x30ff] [Fri Jan 15 13:11:00 2021] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 18: [mem 0xb1100000-0xb110ffff 64bit] [Fri Jan 15 13:11:00 2021] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 20: [mem 0xb1110000-0xb1113fff 64bit] [Fri Jan 15 13:11:00 2021] pci 0000:02:00.0: supports D1 D2 [Fri Jan 15 13:11:00 2021] pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold [Fri Jan 15 13:11:00 2021] pci 0000:02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI [Fri Jan 15 13:11:12 2021] eth1: 0xffffc90016000000, a8:a1:59:4a:xx:xx, IRQ 141 (it detects the full mac fine) sh-4.3$ lsmod | grep "8125" r8125 109374 0 System is a i7-10700 on an ASRock Z490M AC/ITX

Older kernels don't always report turbo speeds properly. BSD works in some of the same way. You sometimes see at least 3 frequencies: Base: ex 800mhz Peak: ex 2500mhz Turbo: ex 2501 You could have many frequencies between 800 and 2500mhz, but 2501 would signify that the cpu is in turbo mode.