@Kevin Horton
With my X11 motherboard I have found I can set any of the 4 fan modes by ipmitool raw commands and change from one to another. The issue with mode 1 (Full) is the fans stay at full speed, even when the mode is changed.
I also tried the commands to set the mode in words, in your script. It works for Optimal and Standard. It works for Full, but that is not suitable, at least for an X11 board. However, Heavy IO gives an error: illegal command. I tried several permutations: HeavyIO, Heavy IO and heavy io.
The script can control both zones, at least I ran it in optimal mode. The cpu fan speed (FAN1) got up to 1400. On my system this is an Intel stock cooler fan with min 800 and max 2500 rpm. So a bit fast but nothing like 3100 or 3200 I got previously running the script starting with fan mode Full.
I then looked to push the system for fan speed and temperature. Within FreeNAS I copied a large number of files into the NAS, total size about 330GB. The cpu only got up to 42c. I couldn't find or understand any other tests to run within the os. Presumably, the scripts can control the fan speeds within FreeNAS but outside this would be ipmi.
Just to be clear, I had tested cpu, memory and hard drives when I first put the system together. All good.
So I went back to Breakin https://www.familybrown.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fester:hvalid_cpu and ran the Standard test.
I got errors for cpu or memory file 1 below
I therefore bought and installed a brand new cpu, same spec and ran the test again. It failed, file 2
So next I ran Memtest 86+ for over 22 hours, 11 passes: no errors, file 3
I took it up with Supermicro. To me it looked like I had eliminated the memory and cpu as the cause of the errors. Surely, the mb was most likely the cause. SM either were unfamiliar with Breakin or unwilling to accept those conclusions. The rep asked my to try Prime95. I have a copy of Ultimate Boot CD which has a Mersenne Prime test. Unfortunately, my keyboard cannot navigate the menus. Legacy USB is enabled in the BIOS. I downloaded and opened the file from the Mersenne website but I don't know what to do with it!
SM also suggested AIDA64. This only supports Windows, not FreeNAS or FreeBSD.
The rep has now said he does not believe there is a hardware fault with the motherboard, file 4
Have I missed something or should I now go for RMA?
Thanks
With my X11 motherboard I have found I can set any of the 4 fan modes by ipmitool raw commands and change from one to another. The issue with mode 1 (Full) is the fans stay at full speed, even when the mode is changed.
I also tried the commands to set the mode in words, in your script. It works for Optimal and Standard. It works for Full, but that is not suitable, at least for an X11 board. However, Heavy IO gives an error: illegal command. I tried several permutations: HeavyIO, Heavy IO and heavy io.
The script can control both zones, at least I ran it in optimal mode. The cpu fan speed (FAN1) got up to 1400. On my system this is an Intel stock cooler fan with min 800 and max 2500 rpm. So a bit fast but nothing like 3100 or 3200 I got previously running the script starting with fan mode Full.
I then looked to push the system for fan speed and temperature. Within FreeNAS I copied a large number of files into the NAS, total size about 330GB. The cpu only got up to 42c. I couldn't find or understand any other tests to run within the os. Presumably, the scripts can control the fan speeds within FreeNAS but outside this would be ipmi.
Just to be clear, I had tested cpu, memory and hard drives when I first put the system together. All good.
So I went back to Breakin https://www.familybrown.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fester:hvalid_cpu and ran the Standard test.
I got errors for cpu or memory file 1 below
I therefore bought and installed a brand new cpu, same spec and ran the test again. It failed, file 2
So next I ran Memtest 86+ for over 22 hours, 11 passes: no errors, file 3
I took it up with Supermicro. To me it looked like I had eliminated the memory and cpu as the cause of the errors. Surely, the mb was most likely the cause. SM either were unfamiliar with Breakin or unwilling to accept those conclusions. The rep asked my to try Prime95. I have a copy of Ultimate Boot CD which has a Mersenne Prime test. Unfortunately, my keyboard cannot navigate the menus. Legacy USB is enabled in the BIOS. I downloaded and opened the file from the Mersenne website but I don't know what to do with it!
SM also suggested AIDA64. This only supports Windows, not FreeNAS or FreeBSD.
The rep has now said he does not believe there is a hardware fault with the motherboard, file 4
Have I missed something or should I now go for RMA?
Thanks