Hello. My TrueNAS motherboard, an ASUS Pro WS W680M-ACE SE, has QLED’s onboard that provide Q-Codes. My processor is an Intel Core i9-14900K. I noticed that the QLEDs are displaying a Q-Code of “00”. In the manual, it states this Q-Code is not used, however, Asus’ website shows that this Q-Code shows “CPU abnormal”.
The BIOS shows the correct CPU information. At the TrueNAS shell, I ran lscpu and cat /proc/cpuinfo and the information for the CPU was correct. While logged into TrueNAS, the dashboard shows the correct CPU.
Afaik, with the 00 code the mainboard is not even posting, but you are using the system so… Do you see the code changing during the post, and then sit to 00, or is always to 00?
To me seems more a cosmetic problem motherboard related.
But if you wanna be sure, i think you must rely on a different boot device, like using ultimatebootcd, and perform your test. As far i remember on Core i have used some builtin (maybe it was stress?) but i don’t know about something similar on Scale
Yes, the motherboard posts with no issues and no errors. The Q-Codes do change while booting and then when TrueNAS gets booted completely, the Q-Code sits at 00.
I spoke with ASUS’ tech support by phone and they suggested clearing the CMOS which I did with no issues, no issues with post, no issues with getting into the BIOS, nothing that I can find.
As long as I can start and login to TrueNAS with no issues after booting to ultimatebootcd and performing the stress test, I would definitely try.
As a side note, I couldn’t get the ultimate boot cd 5.3.9 iso to work…burned it to disc, BIOS wouldn’t boot from the USB DVD drive; tried to balenaEtcher the iso to USB stick and an error popped up that it’s missing a partition table. Hmm.
Just to make sure I wasn’t misremembering, I peeked inside the case and yep it was 00. Great board, it’s the workstation that handles Xeon chips and ECC in a certain form factor. Maxed out the ram to 128gb which the manual will say, it stops at 64 but I confirmed with a support agent first. May need a bios update but definitely takes it.
Mine has the latest and greatest BIOS versions, 4301. After I poked around in the BIOS, I did a quick recheck myself…still sitting at 00. I have 128GB of ECC memory. It’s been solid.
