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mule
Jul 28, 2010Aspirant
ReadyNAS Pro: System temp running out of spec
In the last weeks I did have several times where the CPU temp ran out of spec. What's annoying to me is that the cpu fan runs at maximum 1506 rpm?! Shouldn't it rotate much higher to avoid temp running out of spec?
Any idea what to do? A calibration of the cpu fan is not offered within frontview...
Thanks in advance for any hint!
Any idea what to do? A calibration of the cpu fan is not offered within frontview...
Thanks in advance for any hint!
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- beisser1Tutor
mule wrote: borrisl wrote: Just a little note. Just bought one of two used Pro units for parts. They looked almost new and where RMA'd because of overheating issues.
Took the CPU cooler off and found that the plastic cover was still on the cpu cooler. No wonder it was overheating. Made contact with the cooler and what do you know, I now have a perfectly good Pro.
Don't know if you want to suggest people pull their cpu coolers off and check, but apparently someone was careless at the factory that day.
But this results in a cpu temp issue and not a system temp issue of which we're talking about in this thread, right?
temp1 actually is the system temp and temp2 the cpu temp.
it was already requested to give the temp more apropriate names to avoid confusion :) - muleAspirantIssue seems to be fixed after doing some tests with the new beta fw 4.2.14-T13. Many thanks to the Jedi Council!
mule wrote: Issue seems to be fixed after doing some tests with the new beta fw 4.2.14-T13. Many thanks to the Jedi Council!
You are welcome. Keep us update with how it goes.. Thanks.- lissterAspirant
mule wrote: Issue seems to be fixed after doing some tests with the new beta fw 4.2.14-T13. Many thanks to the Jedi Council!
How would i go about trying that firmware to? I was about to downgrade to 4.2.11 on tech supports suggestions but i rather upgrade to a new version to try out
if that is possible. I have a full backup of my readynas that i update by rsync each nite so im not to worried about issues :) - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredInstall the update from the Announcement in the Public Beta forum (see http://readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=45827) via System > Update > Local in Frontview.
- lissterAspirantJust wanted to update this.
After installing and running tests with the new 4.2.15 firmware so far my fan issues seem fixed.
Alas my read speed issues seem to still be exactly the same :(
Was there anything found out and/or done about it in this firmware or is that still coming? - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredAs this isn't really relevant to this thread, you should open a separate thread for your read speed issue and probably open a technical support case as well.
- mromanchAspirantIs this thread about temp sensor 1 or 2?
I am always getting messages like this:
Mon Jan 3 01:31:37 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 60.5C/140.9F].
Sun Jan 2 23:35:51 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 61.0C/141.8F].
Sun Jan 2 23:35:19 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 68.5C/155.3F].
Sun Jan 2 23:34:51 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 68.5C/155.3F].
Sun Jan 2 23:34:34 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 76.5C/169.7F].
Sun Jan 2 23:34:17 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 78.5C/173.3F].
Sun Jan 2 23:34:00 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 80.0C/176.0F].
Sun Jan 2 23:33:42 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 79.0C/174.2F].
Sun Jan 2 23:33:08 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 77.0C/170.6F].
Sun Jan 2 23:32:40 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 60.5C/140.9F].
Sun Jan 2 23:32:21 PST 2011 Temperature sensor 2 reports out of normal range [expected range: 0-60C/32-140F, current: 62.5C/144.5F].
As you can see, sometimes they are spurious, like the one at 1:31 and other times they are sustained over several minutes like the one starting at 23:32. I wasn't around when that one happened, but when I see it hit temps as high as 78.5C I usually panic and shutdown for a while.
It does not take much activity for me to get the thing running "out of normal range". I would have to say that if I am doing any kind of sustained activity, then hitting temps between 60 - 65 C *is* normal. The thing is hardly the stealthy device described in the marketing video, since the fans are running full speed whenever it is in use.
I would have to say that my ReadyNAS has always made what I consider a lot of noise, but recently it got worse so I started looking online to see if this was normal. That is when I found this thread. I upgraded the firmware to RAIDiator-x86 4.2.15 yesterday (Jan 2 02:33:25 PST 2011) and at first I thought it was better. Although the fans still ran at high RPM during sustained use, I was not getting warning messages. This was better, although I still would like if it ran quietly like the ad said it would.
Unfortunately, this didn't seem to last. After only a few hours I started getting temp readings so high (80.0C) I decided to shutdown the system for a while. All I am doing is copying large files to the NAS. I am sending over disk images that are between 8 - 40 GB. - mromanchAspirantSo I'm sitting here doing nothing on the NAS and I hear the fans start howling. The thing is reporting 75C on the OLED. I haven't used it all day and it wasn't doing any of the scheduled tasks. (Not sure if there are other small maint tasks it does that don't have specific setup.)
Funny things:
A) First report in logs is AT 75.5C, nothing before that.
B) In status view on both Radiator and browser app, the temp shows green. In the browser app, mousing over the temp got me an empty white box. Now the fans have settled down and mousing over shows temp at 47 & 40C.
C) In about 60 seconds temp 2 when from some value less than 60 to 75.5C then down to 40C?!? - mromanchAspirantCan somebody at least let me know what temperature sensor 2 is measuring?
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