Hi. Sorry I have not watched this topic for a while. As far as I remember one of my buses was 800MHz I think and the other one was 200MHz (odd) for CPU0 and CPU1 respectively. I can't really use CPU-Z now because it crashes my SpeedFan application. I remembered this because I also found one of the values odd
would this be possible???? This motherboard is getting beyond my technical knowledge and I would like to take it out of the case and install an ATX or microATX form factor board in its place, is this possible? Note I only need to install WHS, and possibly WHS Vail on the system and therefore do not require any expansion cards.
I don't want to buy a microATX board and processor to find it won't fit or there are no screw locations to fasten the board. I also don't want the prosessor to catch on the drive bay of the case! Tanks once again!
I am planing to do the same. I have checked the screw locations. They look OK for any ATX or mATX board. Mine is a Flex ATX also that is OK. The thing to watch out is the height. If it fits in 1U (45mm) it will be OK. With a micro ATX you would need a low profile cooler. The power supply has an 8p socket and not the usual 4p for 12V. You might be able to use it anyway. Are you giving up totally on the HDAMA? I will put it in another case and use it as a workstation. Peter
It runs XP fine so I may keep it! To be honest I just want to get my server up and running as I don't have time to mess around with this MoBo! I have put hours and cash into the HDAMA and it is Pming me off! Or maybe I should say "it's beat me"! ;(
I have been having this trouble with my newly purchased server. It has the HDAMA Rev. G. I updated the BIOS as recommended, first to the stock 2.18b and then to a modded 2.18b although I can't remember which one it was, but it was posted in another thread by tqhoang and was contained on an ISO image. It wasn't one of the PowerNow Bios's, think it was jsut 2.18b and Silicon Image 5.4.x.x I'm currently running ubuntu 10.10 and getting the same freezes other people here are experiencing. Generally it seems to be when the CPU's are being loaded (compiling, installing packages etc.) and it just stops working completely, although the webserver can still load files. For what its worth here is my system info: HDAMA Rev-G with 2x Opteron 250. The dmidecode (see below) says stepping 1 which seems to be the E4. dmidecode output for CPU: Code: SMBIOS 2.34 present. Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: Socket 940 Type: Central Processor Family: Opteron Manufacturer: AMD ID: 51 0F 02 00 FF FB 8B 07 Signature: Family 15, Model 37, Stepping 1 Flags: FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip) VME (Virtual mode extension) DE (Debugging extension) PSE (Page size extension) TSC (Time stamp counter) MSR (Model specific registers) PAE (Physical address extension) MCE (Machine check exception) CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported) APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported) SEP (Fast system call) MTRR (Memory type range registers) PGE (Page global enable) MCA (Machine check architecture) CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported) PAT (Page attribute table) PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension) CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported) MMX (MMX technology supported) FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore) SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions) SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2) Version: AMD Voltage: 1.6 V External Clock: 200 MHz Max Speed: 3000 MHz Current Speed: 2400 MHz Status: Populated, Enabled Upgrade: None L1 Cache Handle: 0x0006 L2 Cache Handle: 0x0007 L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided Serial Number: Not Specified Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: Not Specified Handle 0x0005, DMI type 4, 35 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: Socket 940 Type: Central Processor Family: Opteron Manufacturer: AMD ID: 51 0F 02 00 FF FB 8B 07 Signature: Family 15, Model 37, Stepping 1 Flags: FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip) VME (Virtual mode extension) DE (Debugging extension) PSE (Page size extension) TSC (Time stamp counter) MSR (Model specific registers) PAE (Physical address extension) MCE (Machine check exception) CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported) APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported) SEP (Fast system call) MTRR (Memory type range registers) PGE (Page global enable) MCA (Machine check architecture) CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported) PAT (Page attribute table) PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension) CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported) MMX (MMX technology supported) FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore) SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions) SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2) Version: AMD Voltage: 1.6 V External Clock: 200 MHz Max Speed: 3000 MHz Current Speed: 2400 MHz Status: Populated, Enabled Upgrade: None L1 Cache Handle: Not Provided L2 Cache Handle: Not Provided L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided Serial Number: Not Specified Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: Not Specified dmesg output for powernow: Code: [ 0.476517] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 250 (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) [ 0.476566] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x6 [ 0.476568] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x8 [ 0.476570] powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xa [ 0.476572] powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xc [ 0.476574] powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 [ 0.476639] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x6 [ 0.476642] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x8 [ 0.476644] powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xa [ 0.476646] powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xc [ 0.476648] powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 Watching this thread now, let me know if you need any other information or need me to test anything. Cheers!
The Linux kernel is creating the DSDT PSS objects for the PowerNow automatically. Something is wrong either in hardware or BIOS (i.e. ACPI) that makes the system freeze. I haven't looked at the RW-Everything ACPI report by ljcomp yet...hopefully I'll get a chance soon.
Awesome, I look forward to helping get this sorted. You have done some amazing work so far - i read this entire thread! Without your help I still would of been stuck with an old BIOS revision and no clue of my board model or anything!
Theclick, I could not even install Linux without getting freezes. I solved it by adding acpi=off on the kernel commandline in grub. After that everything runs fine but on full speed, no powersaving. I am also running Ubuntu 10.10 Peter
I am curious...is there any BIOS to run a rev A or rev D HDAMA board with Server 2008 R2? I have the rev G boards running fine...and have a couple or the others I would like to run.
I think the problem is solely ACPI related. What we could do is transplant the necessary ACPI modules from the HDAMA-G to the previous HDAMA models and find out. Similar to what I did with the HDAMA-I BIOS for you. BTW, I know you've had really good luck with the HDAMA-I boards with the PowerNow, but have you tested the HDAMA-G with the PowerNow for the Opteron 280 (OSA280FAA6CB) without lockups/freezes?
Whatever the last version of BIOS was that you made me is what I am currently using. I have had no problems at all running Server 2008 R2 with dual CPUs (the 280s you reference) and various amounts of RAM. For these other boards I would be running the 250s
I'm lazy today...can you you link to the BIOS you want to have modified? Also which 250's (CG or E4)?
Don't think my post count is high enough to post the actual link...but www{dot}accelertech{dot}com / 2007 / assets / hdama188.zip I was just checking the CPU and I am wrong...they are an Opteron 244 model number: OSA244CC05AH
server power outage, now cannot boot windows Hi I previously followed this thread, updated the bios to the latest2.18B RF4 and 5.4.03 raid bios and loaded the x64 win2k8 drivers for the raid, been working fine for 6 months. We had a power outage today and when it came back windows would show a BSOD with error code indicating it cannot find the boot disk. I have tried a repair, and giving it the drivers on this thread (and a million other combinations) and it loads the drivers but does not find the operating system disk to repair. Both disks show fine in the raid controller (raid 0) and both have the data on them if I look from another machine. Even attempting a new install does not show the drives when loading the sata drivers. Any ideas? Is this maybe a hardware issue with the raid controller after a power outage? Any ideas appreciated
babybob - Is your array marked as degraded in any way in the Silicon Image BIOS? Unfortunately the SI BIOS might require you to reformat the array to re-initialize it. I could be wrong though. FWIW, you're playing with fire with RAID-0 for your main OS drive. Striping is only for speed and should only be used by itself for temporary workspace. If you're going to keep your OS on there, then it needs to be paired with RAID-1 mirroring to create a 0+1 or 1+0 array (requires 4 drives). Or you could just do the RAID-1 mirroring with 2 drives. Of course if you just need a non-RAID SATA, what I can do is use the SATALink ROM posted by "pmf" and integrate that into a BIOS for you.
That is fine, this motherboard doesn't have any SATA connectors. I will go with the 1.89 version and let you know how it works. Thank you again TQ. BTW, is there anything you need from me to help out with the freeze-up issue? I am running 280s, so I can't help if it is CPU specific to the 250s.