Continuous beep from server on startup

[Helmonder]

Hi,

This weekend I added another M1015 in my system to add another 5 disks.

The M1015 was flashed fine and when I add one SSD to that adapter that adapter is recognised fine in unraid and that SSD is now part of my cache pool (this to confirm that adding the card works).

Now the moment I give my drive cage power and startup my system my server starts beeping continuously (and immediately at boot).

This long beep normally means something like an overheat but I do not think that is likely since it happens immediately at startup..

My setup:

Supermicro X11SSM-F, Version 1.01
Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1230 v6 @ 3.50GHz
32 GiB DDR Single-bit ECC
10GB Mellanox SFTP Network
10 * WD RED 8/10TB
1 * 1TB SSD (NVME, cache)
2 * 250 GB SSD (Extra cache pool (chia))
4 * 8GB Seagate archive

PSU is 750 single rail. Just to be sure I added the new drive cage with a new power connector directly from the PSU.

My first thought would be a wattage shortage (considering it happens directly at bootup), but that does not seem likely with 750 watts..

I sat thru the beep for a few minutes actually starting up the system and everything did work, drives were recognised.

IPMI also does not show errors (there is one error on a fan that is running to low but that has always been there).

I am tempted to just disable the speaker but ofcourse that is a bad idea..

What could this be ??

Diagnostics is attached just to be sure.

Edited May 30, 2021 by Helmonder

[Squid]

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1168585/Super-Micro-General-X11ssm.html?page=112

[Helmonder]

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1168585/Super-Micro-General-X11ssm.html?page=112

I read that…. “System overheat condition” but as said that does seem very unlikely if that happens immediately after a powerup when 1 extra drivecage is connected… unplug it, power up, no beep, powerdown, plug in, power up, beep..

That cannot be an overheat condition..it -does- seem to be power related though…


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[Vr2Io]

Cage model ?

 

You should check does cage have buzzer and beep from it.

Edited May 31, 2021 by Vr2Io

[S80_UK]

Just a hunch - could it be a fan failure warning?  Either a slow fan, an fan not plugged in, or an incorrect BIOS setting for fan monitoring? 

[Helmonder]

That is not likely since the fan on the cage is powered by the motherboard and that fan is also plugged in when the cage is not, and then everything works..

[Helmonder]

7 hours ago, Vr2Io said:

Cage model ?

 

You should check does cage have buzzer and beep from it.

oeh… that is a good one… i was in contact with supermicro and they confirmed that the only beep like this is for overheating and that could not be the case here…

 

did not think of the cage itself as a potential..

 

it has been in the server for a longer amount of time (though unused and unplugged for years)..

 

i will check that this weekend !

[Helmonder]

CSE-M35T-1B


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[Helmonder]

Cage model ?
 
You should check does cage have buzzer and beep from it.

Think I found it allready, you are a life saver…

I connected the cage fan directly to the motherboard…

It appears i can connect the fan to the cage and the cage to the motherboard.

With the wat I connected it right now the cage does not see the fan and alerts…

It also explains why in reality everything worked fine :-)

Will check for real this afternoon, but wuite positive this is the issue !


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[Vr2Io]

17 minutes ago, Helmonder said:

but wuite positive this is the issue !

Quite likely alert because missing FAN, you can keep connect the FAN to mobo for further control the cage FAN ( I also do that on my Icydock cage ), then set below jumper.

 

Edited June 1, 2021 by Vr2Io