DrBobke1

Just received my new Watercooler, installed it and unraid has now been online for coming up to 2 hours, so I am fairly certain the issue has been resolved and the watercooler is busted. Happy that is was just a small cost! Unraid is now Parity checking, but I did see the temps come up to 41°, is that okay? I am not doing anything else at the moment. Just for reference : I have an LGA2011 mobo (GA-x79-UP4 (rev1,1)) and put Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Paste on with an Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML120R RGB cooler on. Side question : I have everything hooked up as indicated, but the RGB lights do not come on. the Two fans and hooked up via a Y splitter to CPU FAN on the Mobo and running, the other two are fed into the remote as indicated with another splitter cable. The two cables coming from the CPU cooler itself - 1 is fed into the RGB remote as well, the other is meant to go into CPU_OPT, but since I don't have that on my Mobo, I have put it into SYSFAN4 (also 3 pin). I also connected the USB (USB Header Connector and USB Adapter) to feed power to the RGB Remote. The cable for Gigabyte Mobo connection to the RGB Remote, I cannot put on my Mobo anywhere (probably my mobo is too old?). It's called the ARGB 3-Pin Motherboard connector. I don't mind too much that I can't control the RGB lights, but it would be nice that they can just "come on". Just for reference : I didn't put the cables for Case Restarting Line, or Motherboard Restart wire, since I don't use them anyway. What am I missing?

So, a little update in the meantime.. It took a long time to get the live Windows going on the thumbdrive. When it was finally booting, I was greeted with the WIN-logo and a wheel that kept turning, I killed after about 10 min as it didn't seem to change a thing. I tried going into BIOS settings, selecting the boot drive, disconnected all HDD's, but nothing worked, so I gave up. I did take the watercooler out and noticed the thermal paste was pretty dried up. I also removed the CPU, so I can clean it. I have just ordered a new watercooler from Coolermaster, as a lot of reviews report having issues with Corsair watercoolers (then one I had, but was working pretty well as far as I knew).. So here is to testing where the issue lies. Delivery will only be on Tuesday though.. Hopefully that will sort the issue then!

Would it be a good idea to unplug the HDD's during this time? Or will that mess up something in Unraid afterwards? I am creating the live windows drive now (win 8.1, as I am not sure my hardware will support WIN10).

Do you know if there is a way to confidently check if the cooling system is off without having to buy a new watercooler, etc? Or is the best course of action to install the live windows version and giving the stress-test a go? (that would likely then identify if there is an error/problem with the CPU, no?

Do you happen to know if there is a "guide" on how to do this without having the probability of data loss? I have a very substantial movie library/collection that I don't want to damage or lose..

I haven't overclocked this systeem indeed, I haven't touched the CPU/watercooler in many years. It is actually my old PC that I cleared and then built the unraid system. My new desktop pc, I built myself, but this one was built by a store when the CPU/motherboard were brand new. So that is likely around 2015 (or even before?). Haven't pulled it apart as far as I know in all those years (except to change over HDD's etc).

Should I install a win version on a thumb drive then, and try to boot from there? Won't that result in data loss on my array?

How can I confirm it is not the CPU overheating? As stated before, the temperature goes up quite a bit and the CPU fan/watercooling wasn't working, so potentially - could the CPU overheat from continuous use without the fan running? Would that be likely, or would the system 'protect itself' before that could happen?

I used to have 2 parity drives, but because unraid is complicated and getting right answers even harder, I switched a lot of my system to a Synology that I use for work-purposes too. So I scavenged a parity drive off the system, to use on the Synology. Anyway, it has been months like that now... Since it went down again, I am now running another memtest and see if I can let it run through the night. In that case, I should be able to be pretty confident that it's not the RAM or the CPU causing the issue for making unraid go down, right? So far, it is going down after 20/30 min (running unraid), and the memtest I did earlier (and got the pass), ran for longer than that, and then, I let it run for 5-10 min more, before exiting and thinking it might have been the CPU water cooler fan not working. Sadly, not the case! When just getting it up again (memtest, after it having been off for at least 45 min), temp was around 50°, but it went up quite rapidly to 95 again, but the fanbody, pipes etc felt cool to the touch). Anything jumping out from the syslog? EDIT: just went to check, it went down again during the memtest this time - does that mean anything in 'finding the culprit'? Thanks a lot for the help!

Okay, so I was optimistic, but sadly, it went offline again. Before it did, I did notice CPU temp was up to 90° (I have the Dynamix plugin installed)., not sure if that means anything?

Memtest done *PASS* without problems. But I did see the CPU temp going up to 95°C. I then noticed the fan of the watercooler not working, I did hear the water running through the system, but the casing, piping and cooler on the CPU, did feel warm to the touch (skinblazingly hot). When I was doing the memtest, I unplugged the CPU fan from the mobo and plugged it in again. I then didn't get the fan working either, but - on my mobo, I have 4 pins for the cpu cooler, whereas my Corsair cooler has 3 pins. I unplugged again and plugged it in again (1 different) and it started working again. I saw the temp come down to 60's° (the memtest finished), so I ended the test and went to power up again. Funny thing is - I am 1000% convinced, I never changed the wire since I setup my system (which is probably 3 years or so). So if it would've been incorrectly inserted, it has always worked that way and I have never noticed the (CPU)fan not working. The other fans have been working all the time for sure. I am eager to see if that is maybe why my system was shutting down for no reason.. But I am stumped, as I know for sure the wire has always been inserted in the way it has been, so if that really is the issue, that is strange to say the least.

Just turned it on again, date is the correct date and time running the command line 'date'. I haven't done a memtest yet, but will do so now. Thank you for your help!

I have checked the logs, but nothing really jumps out for me (but I also don't know what to look for). I do find it strange that I have run unraid at 18:40 or so, but the logs state 13:42 etc, so seems to be 5 hours off, should that mean anything... If it's a hardware issue, are there points that often are a good first step? As ideally, I don't want to buy all new stuff, don't mind some small things, but anything mayor, and I think I'll scrap my whole unraid and go to another system... 🙂 Should it help, I am running Unraid 6.12 6 version, I updated it a few weeks ago.

Hereby the logs, as requested. It was online for probably 20-30 min before it went offline again. By the way - cpu is watercooled, but despite being off for hours, when I turned on and went into the BIOS, I saw CPU was at 86°C, which doesn't seem right after MAYBE being on for like 2 min or so? leonore-diagnostics-20240126-1343.zip

Thanks, I will try this after dinner to set it up and see what happens. I do run parity check, every week. Parity also activates after the system is up and running again (as expected), but then the system shuts itself down after 15-30 min or so I think.