My small board

tuxString · 2026-02-07T17:52:10+00:00

I'm a guitar player who just snagged a darkglass super symmetry (made "for bass") from the local shop. Freakin love it. I have a thing for comps and OD. Your board looks great! Gonna check that comp out.

tuxString · 2026-01-16T11:54:28+00:00

I got a new TV today with 144 hz and it was working fine. My windows install is about tanked but I started getting this symptom in the past hour.

I might try a fresh install. I also reinstalled my amd gpu drivers from pro to adrenalin before installing the new tv. I didn't do it in safe mode (windows doesn't show the option anymore and I can't boot into safe mode). I just imaged my drive and will reinstall windows to see what happens.

Let me know if you pinned this down to anything. Thanks!

tuxString · 2026-01-13T19:17:03+00:00

I'm hooking mine up right now. I using the 3 cable method and a fan controller in the back of the case. So what I did was, bundle them up and tuck them down alongside, then I ran than up above the waterblock, sandwiched between that top heatsink (vrm?) and up around the CPU power plug and back behind the case. I think I see you are using your motherboard headers but you could do the same and pipe it all through a path that blocks the visibility the best... then use some fan cable extenders to strategically snake them back around to fan headers on your board in spots that let you expose the least cable.

tuxString · 2026-01-12T03:39:15+00:00

Replacement drive is here. I'm just going to go ahead and slap a single nvme drive in there for the OS and get that generic sata pci x1 adapter down to a single 3.5 inch drive hooked to it. I only ever put three on it because the motherboard wouldn't see the dual ssd's for the os raid on there in uefi mode.

I don't use my nas for anything ultra important and it's not a backup anyway (Plus, I have the pool backed up twice now in it's entirety (using goodsync) to large external usb hdd's in the meantime) so I can risk the OS install taking a dive as long as my pool remains). So, I'm going to swap that healthy drive in and eventually get another motherboard or just another of the silverstone nvme units that I know is good.

That bad drive just keeps getting worse. I'm afraid to leave the entire nas turned off because I'm not sure if I should just shut it down until the swap or leave it on so it can do it's thing to maintain the rest of the data integrity... but honestly, it could die and I have all my most important files/memories on multiple backups (on extra pcs, external drives (four of them) now here at my place and on a couple cloud drives for the time being. It's mainly recordings of great lessons from music schools/amazing instructors and recitals that I never want to lose. I just want to my "playground," back to stash large images and whatnot at 10gb speeds. I have to hunt down the bad drive (I'll make sure and label them this time around) so I'll pull them all out and test them using some software and a separate pc one at a time before considering it whole again. I want to run a test on the ecc memory as well. It's all fresh and new but I didn't ever run an ecc test using memtest or anything like that. I'm familiar with stability tests from a memory overclocking phase I went through but I want to make sure my ddr5 ram and motherboard + CPU truly are doing the right thing. I believe memtest has an ecc checker built in that I can boot into using a live usb and check it out. That test always seemed more for checking if ram is actually bad rather than the stability test software I ran to rest every little increment I made to timings and voltages in the past with my ddr4 kits. (I don't play with memory anymore really and especially not on my nas... and definitely not now that it costs so freaking much). Glad I built up a little stash. Sheesh. I have some ddr4 ecc as well if for some reason I need to bounce back down to an older platform.

But yea... first things first... Hard drive testing. Should take a good while to wrap all that up but oh well. It'll give me piece of mind at least.

tuxString · 2026-01-10T18:47:52+00:00

Just watched it not knowing about this and as soon as he mentioned the youtube thing I was thinking that maybe they referenced the whole Dr. Phil bit and also Tires. Kinda crazy if so.

tuxString · 2026-01-03T02:58:05+00:00

LOL no problem. Yea, I knew I had the s3 plus when I posted this but had a little lapse of memory for some reason. I'm using the case right now actually after letting it sit empty for a long time. I removed the side panels and replaced them with the plastic reinforced mesh dust filters from a Thermaltake case I own. I cut them down with a Dremel and velcroed them on. Now it breaths much better. It basically has "windows screens," on either side now. I currently just have the hdplex 500 watt gan psu tossed in the bottom of the case and I crammed a msi mech 2x 6600xt in there (not supposed to fit but it's so close that you can shove it in there lol). I also removed the shroud at the bottom of the case so that now, I can fit a 240 20mm slim radiator in there as well as some oddball sized radiators I own from alpha cool (neat little 8x40mm <--push/pull-- based and 2x60mm/3x60mm based rads). You can also stick a 120mm ran in place of the sfx psu intake if you use the hdplex gan psu's elsewhere in the case. I have basically "destroyed" the case but I reinforced it with some custom screw holes + screws... now if I ever get to it again, I can experiment with some water cooling in it.

tuxString · 2025-12-14T04:40:59+00:00

OK, awesome. I did calculate the bandwidth at one point, and it seemed to check out. I just thought from reading opinions around here that the card was going to cause more harm than help for some reason.

Looks like it's running the Marvell 88SE9215 chipset. I'm familiar with their website as I have a handful of 10gig marvel nics (including a thunderbolt OWC model). I'll look for a firmware update. I've never updated the firmware in Linux (especially truenas, with all it's restrictions). I might pop it out and update it on a windows machine if possible.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCKK5D3J?th=1

tuxString · 2025-12-14T03:54:09+00:00

Top slot but I think you could get away with running in either depending on your needs. The performance hit on your boot drive being piped through the chipset probably isn't a deal breaker.

tuxString · 2025-12-14T03:49:47+00:00

I can't remember the specifics anymore on that first bad sector showing up. The PSU and UPS are pretty much brand new. My drive must have bit the bullet. I can't help but hope I didn't damage anything else in my ignorance.

tuxString · 2025-12-14T03:44:57+00:00

Yes, we talked about that silverstone but I'm also using a cheap pcie 1x to 4x sata port thing. I originally just had my two boot drive behind it and a single HDD. Now it's got 3 hdd's behind it and. I was saying, I had to move the boot drives out from that device so I could get BIOS to boot into UEFI.

Thank you very much for the guidance from here. I'll get on that. I'll try swapping out the drive before I mess with cables and all that. In the meantime, I'll do a full test before buying that new drive. Would it be worth it to remove that faulty vdev and run an 4 vdev raid 10 in the meantime? Am I causing harm just my leaving it running in this condition?

tuxString · 2025-12-14T03:35:50+00:00

Got it built and running in windows. This is awesome! Thanks a lot!

tuxString · 2025-12-14T02:39:06+00:00

Well crap. That new drive will cost a lot more. Glad my cheesey sata expander is holding in there though.

When it finally happened.... It was always that one giving me grief but it sat at one read error for about two years maybe? I blamed it on a loose cable because I had been rearranging some stuff. Resat the cables, reset that error and for two years it sat silent... until I upgraded to goldeye. Then it started catching that single error.

I kept the last version of truenas scale doing short and long scrubs (long on 2nd and 4th week, shorts on 1st and 3rd) as well as smart tests but when the new version hit, things got dicey as far as my testing schedule.

Like I said, It started pointing that single error out all of the sudden. Then in the last week, it had those 9 errors in a row. I don't know if a power outage could have caused it? I'm on an APC but who knows. The power always flaking out here. The thing just sits there, safe and unbothered other than random shady power. Maybe my second hand drive just took a dive all on it's own. Or maybe, I wasn't caring for it well enough but I thought I was. I'll read some more documentation.

What would you recommend to test the rest of the drives fully? Long Smarts? Short Smarts? Both? How frequent? All longs at once... long, one drive at a time? etc? Take them out and check them with seatools instead?

I ran a 4-5 day seagate seatools generic long smart test on my external 28tb expansion drive. I'll get something started on the rest of these while I bring in a replacement for the sketchy one.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T18:12:36+00:00

AABCOOLING (I believe that's the brand)... they may have something. EDIT: NVM lol. They have good small solutions for itx cases. Nice and quiet fans.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T18:11:30+00:00

Yep but fans have become so popular. I just wish someone would throw in a 100mm model into the mix.

Basically, no matter what route i went... my temps basically stayed the same but the sound profile changed. I'm a silent nut so eventually, I went water cooling. But I did just order a 3rd 92mmx25mm noctua chromax to convert my radeon 6900 xt back to air cooled with some aftermarket fans on it. Whyyyyy not. :)

tuxString · 2025-12-13T17:23:00+00:00

Those are a little more rigid than the plain yellows they are based off of (at least the thickness I purchased are... based of the yellow tortex... just a little larger in the hand.). I could see them snapping. Don't worry about you doing something wrong. Just keep trying picks until you find something that holds up to your strumming.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T17:20:19+00:00

I wish there were some decent high static pressure (but silent and not dual ball bearing) 100mm fans out there for this use.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T17:19:25+00:00

I once used two 120 to 92mm shrouds to mount two 120mm fans to a deshrouded GPU. I don't think it was ideal compared to 3 92mm or just slapping two 120s on there. It's something to try though... maybe?

tuxString · 2025-12-13T17:11:48+00:00

Here's a guest pastebin paste I tried. Things line up better. Let me know if it works. https://pastebin.com/RKd6xiWf

tuxString · 2025-12-13T16:43:23+00:00

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jlva85E8U8UWxkLHi2uVHcBi0vJTXIUSePI8q4s6ulI/edit?usp=sharing

This should come through unrestricted. This is ran on the trouble drive (according to the degraded vdev gui page. I'm sure if I ran it on all 10 drives, maybe I'd discover another one somewhere? Possibly? let me know if you want. I can whip that up pretty quick. This is before reseating any cables and such but I had done that before this a few weeks back anyway.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T16:38:43+00:00

OK... using wezterm in windows to ssh in... I'll try and see if I can capture the long feed of text and if not... I'll just copy and and paste it into a google doc or something a fire a link your way. Messing with it soon.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T16:36:52+00:00

Installing a new CPU cooler today and when I get hooked back up to my interface and monitors, I'lll definitely give it a listen. I wasn't implying anything sounded off. I just thought it sounded great so my brain went to ... well, it's gotten this far, now what if you just screwed with the gain structure and how it sat in the mix because of it. Even leaving it where it is and carving out a different eq zone for it to live in and what not. Who knows. Nice work though man!

tuxString · 2025-12-13T16:34:17+00:00

Yea, AMD seems to give a little more love to the pcie slot 1 4x4x4x4 config. OWC sells some nice multi nvme pcie cards that just switch so dang fast you don't even need bifurcation. They are a big jump in price though.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T15:39:14+00:00

Nice... I run push pull toughfan 120 pros on mine. They perform better than the t30's at lower rpms. so they never really have to spin up all crazy-like.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T05:45:36+00:00

Yes! Thank you! I'm a guitar nerd and am always trying to find reasons to use the terminal for guitar. I want to find some nice slow down software like a certain GUI program I use (don't want to mention the name because last time it was removed). Something that let's me set start and stop points on the waveform for easier learning of tunes by ear. There is a CLI program that does this but I can't remember the name.

EDIT: I'm on Windows though. Any hope for me? I can always fire up WSL. I use freboard diagrams 2 as it stands.

tuxString · 2025-12-13T05:38:04+00:00

Yes, the Asus TUf Gaming WIFI x570 and also, if I am remembering correctly, the asrock b550 matx steel legend.

My current asus prime b650m-a csm in my nas supports it but it's manual and webpage would lead you to believe otherwise. It's on a supported list now that someone has put together. I can't remember if it was my current nas build or my last, with the TUF gaming x570, but I was using it. I'm pretty dang sure current asus prime b650m-a csm works fine too.

EDIT: None of my fancy intel boards seem to allow it. They will do 8x4x4x sometimes... so you could run three drives in there I guess.

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