Does anyone have the proper settings for the BIOS/CMOS on a Supermicro C2-SEA board?  I am running a Celerron 3300 Dual Core, 4GB RAM, and 2 Adaptec SATA cards 1430SAs plus one 1220SA.  It is pretty much using recommended parts from the lists.

 

ver. 4.7 Beta 1 Pro

 

The problem I have is the board shutting down after about 1 hour turning off net access, monitor access at the terminal, and USB keyboard/mouse too.

 

In order to get the box to stay up long enough to run pre-cleans and even copy in large files, I disabled so many things in the BIOS that I bet I screwed up performance and possibly the ability for my soon-to-purchase UPS to not be able to control the board. Note that the changes I made did allow the box to stay available all night, so I am not "critical", but would appreciate some tweaking assistance.  I may have missed it, but I would think that if the board was used in a few mass-quantity builds that there may accidentally be a nice map of proper settings that I could use.

 

I just completed the build and put in 2 x 2TB EARS (no jumpers) and started my copies from elsewhere and ran into the problem while building the Movies share copying about 1TB using TeraCopy.  Since I did my big muddy footprints in the BIOS, I completed the task and even have the 1st pass complete on pre-cleans for a 2TB Black (parity), as 1 TB Black (cache) and another 1TB EARS (more data)... yet to be assigned.

 

Please help.  There are so many settings that could do this, and that can affect perf. that I could be here a month and not know if I did harm or good.  Here's the last kicker...no log files were created, to the system nothing seemed wrong...but I can track each reboot manually triggered, but nothing wrong prior, the board just seemed to go to sleep.

 

Regards,

Chris

Does anyone have the proper settings for the BIOS/CMOS on a Supermicro C2-SEA board?  I am running a Celerron 3300 Dual Core, 4GB RAM, and 2 Adaptec SATA cards 1430SAs plus one 1220SA.  It is pretty much using recommended parts from the lists.

 

ver. 4.7 Beta 1 Pro

 

The problem I have is the board shutting down after about 1 hour turning off net access, monitor access at the terminal, and USB keyboard/mouse too.

 

In order to get the box to stay up long enough to run pre-cleans and even copy in large files, I disabled so many things in the BIOS that I bet I screwed up performance and possibly the ability for my soon-to-purchase UPS to not be able to control the board. Note that the changes I made did allow the box to stay available all night, so I am not "critical", but would appreciate some tweaking assistance.   I may have missed it, but I would think that if the board was used in a few mass-quantity builds that there may accidentally be a nice map of proper settings that I could use.

 

I just completed the build and put in 2 x 2TB EARS (no jumpers) and started my copies from elsewhere and ran into the problem while building the Movies share copying about 1TB using TeraCopy.  Since I did my big muddy footprints in the BIOS, I completed the task and even have the 1st pass complete on pre-cleans for a 2TB Black (parity), as 1 TB Black (cache) and another 1TB EARS (more data)... yet to be assigned.

 

Please help.  There are so many settings that could do this, and that can affect perf. that I could be here a month and not know if I did harm or good.  Here's the last kicker...no log files were created, to the system nothing seemed wrong...but I can track each reboot manually triggered, but nothing wrong prior, the board just seemed to go to sleep.

 

Regards,

Chris

The most likely reason for a MB to stop after a period of being turned on is heat.  Did you install a heat-sink?  Did you use thermal compound?  Did you put too much thermal compound (most suggest the amount equal in size to a grain of rice) ?

 

Next most likely is incorrectly configured or bad memory.

Have you performed a memory test (preferably overnight, or at a minimum, several cycles)

Are the memory Voltage, Timing, and Clock-speed set in the BIOS correctly for your specific brand/model memory strips?    (Most get it right, but many do not, especially with premium RAM)

 

Joe L.

Yes on heat sink + fan with compund.  All came in the new CPU kit.

 

Yes on the memory. 2 days mem test...pre-clean for 10 cycles apiece for each drive...no errors on either.

 

Just to reiterate, changing other settings have allowed the machine to now run for 24 straight hours.  I have seen a steady 28MB/sec on my home LAN.  Multiple machines are writing to it now with shared access of about 8MB/sec pushes.

 

The machine is in the basement.  Ambient temp is 66F and the current writes are only producing 23C to 27C on the active drive via unMENU.  AZZA case has bottom, back, top, and side fans with a fan on the CPU, and 1 fan per drive backplane cage (there are 3 of those).  I think 8 fans in this thing is enough...and I feel them pushing and pulling where expected.  I have small paper strips on my SATA cables and are able to see them blow around.  I know I have airflow.

 

Just looking for settings that are known to work...to compare to.  I just want to know I am tweaked and not screwed up on something...like hooking up a UPS.

 

Does anyone have a C2-SEA that is working in 4.7 Beta 1 that can grab some values for me to verify?

 

 

I've built a couple systems using the C2SEA board ... unfortunately I don't have one here to look at, but I didn't change ANYTHING in the BIOS on those systems except to set the Power On option to "Turn On" and the default boot device to the USB flash drive.   

 

Did you disable the onboard BIOS for your 1430SA cards?    That's necessary for them to function correctly with UnRAID ... although I wouldn't expect that to cause the shutdown issue you're seeing.

 

I agree with Joe's comment -- it sounds like a thermal or memory issue.    But you seem confident it's neither of those, so you may very well have altered something in the BIOS that's causing an issue.    I'd reset the BIOS to "Load Optimal Defaults" ... then reset the boot device and leave everything else alone.