I believe that the drives that are connected via the SFF-8643 connectors on the motherboard have their own chip, it's not handled through the BIOS so you won't see anything there. That one sata on the motherboard and the M.2s are what you see in the BIOS. I use a Supermicro board for my NAS and it has an LSI chip that handles the settings for the two '4-SATA port' connectors on the motherboard. The LSI chip has its own key combo during boot that gets me into its settings for hardware raid, I don't see connected drives in the BIOS, I see them in the LSI chip. I don't know what chip this board uses or if you can get into that chip during boot as it is probably just SATA (no hardware raid settings to access). As for the PSU, yea PSUs don't often fail spectacularly unless abused (or if they are junk). Sometimes they are just a bit out of spec due to age+poor manufacturing. They do slowly decline until some motherboard just can't work with them. The first thing that happens when you turn on a computer is that the PSU does a hardware check and won't turn on the power to the motherboard unless it passes. This 'power good' signal is what starts the motherboard but sometimes what the PSU thinks is OK, the motherboard just isn't impressed with... I would not trust a PSU once it is swapped out and another works fine in the same application. It's time for the recycle bin. And YES RUFUS is what I use to make my BOOT/INSTALL sticks. Good it's working, getting mine going and passing a full MEMTEST was 'as easy as falling off a log'; I was surprised you had trouble considering how 'it just plain worked' for me (two HD, two NVME on motherboard, no-name NVME pcie adapter with another NVME, 64 gigs ram and it runs ESXI 8 great.) My only issue which I figured would happen (thanks Broadcom!) is that the built in TPM is not recognized because of the limited hardware compatibility in ESXI8.
You're right on every level. I suspected the PSU, but it wasn't but a few months old. As soon as it powered down and didn't turn on with the switch I really knew (but was in my denial stage) Chinese no-name I think. I am talking with CWWK about seeing the drives at the controller level (which is what I should have said before). As far as Rufus it worked on DD, so it was my ignorance. Now let's see if I could get used to AMD.
I enjoyed your video, and I'm looking at this motherboard very closely (to utilize as a mini-PC and Nas). I have a couple of questions, if you have time, could you check them out? I'd like to know the power consumption (I'm going to use it as a NAS, so it would be nice to know how many hard drives you use). Additionally, I'd like to know if there is a CPU low power setting in the Bios, so I can keep the power to a minimum if I use it as a NAS.
Hi, I don't monitor power settings (as far as Wattage), but do make sure to set the power loss option in OEM Features Management to "Power Off'. That's so the computer won't turn on when Power is applied at the wall socket level. Otherwise it will power up just by plugging it in. Under the same settings there is a Power Limit Setting, but it has "Balanced" and "Performance" Mode. Confusing because no book.. I use a Jonsbo N3 Case with 5 each 6TB WD Red drives and 2 250MB Solid State Drives (for Truenas boot). I have a bay left over, but no decent drive to add. Also one Nvme for cache. As far as performance, it's good, but the SETUP screen just doesn't show much (i.e. NICs) as the last version did ( th-cam.com/video/29bkHx2Kgd8/w-d-xo.html Minute 11:51 marker). Watch the whole thing also, he's really a good speaker. I am in contact with CWWK, but we will see. So far they responded to my quesitons. A book would be nice.... I can Change Operating systems anytime, but didn't get to it yet..
I believe that the drives that are connected via the SFF-8643 connectors on the motherboard have their own chip, it's not handled through the BIOS so you won't see anything there. That one sata on the motherboard and the M.2s are what you see in the BIOS. I use a Supermicro board for my NAS and it has an LSI chip that handles the settings for the two '4-SATA port' connectors on the motherboard. The LSI chip has its own key combo during boot that gets me into its settings for hardware raid, I don't see connected drives in the BIOS, I see them in the LSI chip. I don't know what chip this board uses or if you can get into that chip during boot as it is probably just SATA (no hardware raid settings to access). As for the PSU, yea PSUs don't often fail spectacularly unless abused (or if they are junk). Sometimes they are just a bit out of spec due to age+poor manufacturing. They do slowly decline until some motherboard just can't work with them. The first thing that happens when you turn on a computer is that the PSU does a hardware check and won't turn on the power to the motherboard unless it passes. This 'power good' signal is what starts the motherboard but sometimes what the PSU thinks is OK, the motherboard just isn't impressed with... I would not trust a PSU once it is swapped out and another works fine in the same application. It's time for the recycle bin. And YES RUFUS is what I use to make my BOOT/INSTALL sticks. Good it's working, getting mine going and passing a full MEMTEST was 'as easy as falling off a log'; I was surprised you had trouble considering how 'it just plain worked' for me (two HD, two NVME on motherboard, no-name NVME pcie adapter with another NVME, 64 gigs ram and it runs ESXI 8 great.) My only issue which I figured would happen (thanks Broadcom!) is that the built in TPM is not recognized because of the limited hardware compatibility in ESXI8.
You're right on every level. I suspected the PSU, but it wasn't but a few months old. As soon as it powered down and didn't turn on with the switch I really knew (but was in my denial stage) Chinese no-name I think. I am talking with CWWK about seeing the drives at the controller level (which is what I should have said before). As far as Rufus it worked on DD, so it was my ignorance. Now let's see if I could get used to AMD.
I enjoyed your video, and I'm looking at this motherboard very closely (to utilize as a mini-PC and Nas).
I have a couple of questions, if you have time, could you check them out?
I'd like to know the power consumption (I'm going to use it as a NAS, so it would be nice to know how many hard drives you use).
Additionally, I'd like to know if there is a CPU low power setting in the Bios, so I can keep the power to a minimum if I use it as a NAS.
Hi,
I don't monitor power settings (as far as Wattage), but do make sure to set the power loss option in OEM Features Management to "Power Off'. That's so the computer won't turn on when Power is applied at the wall socket level. Otherwise it will power up just by plugging it in. Under the same settings there is a Power Limit Setting, but it has "Balanced" and "Performance" Mode. Confusing because no book..
I use a Jonsbo N3 Case with 5 each 6TB WD Red drives and 2 250MB Solid State Drives (for Truenas boot). I have a bay left over, but no decent drive to add. Also one Nvme for cache.
As far as performance, it's good, but the SETUP screen just doesn't show much (i.e. NICs) as the last version did ( th-cam.com/video/29bkHx2Kgd8/w-d-xo.html Minute 11:51 marker). Watch the whole thing also, he's really a good speaker.
I am in contact with CWWK, but we will see. So far they responded to my quesitons. A book would be nice....
I can Change Operating systems anytime, but didn't get to it yet..