I had an issue with one similar to this. I tried a few different things. 1. Try booting with a different keyboard (also try no mouse and different keyboards) 2. Try booting without the second CPU, only a CPU in the first socket I see a delayed start of the boot process on several on these servers when I connect them to my KVM. I have no idea why, but after 3-4 minutes of being powered on, they start to boot. Item one above solves this issue for me most of the time. I am currently running one of my boards like item 2 above recommends. I don't know if I have a bad CPU or a bad board. Or is it something else altogether. I have other CPUs that I intend to upgrade it to and will try those to see if it still does it. I've also seen your symptoms when I was upgrading my BIOS. I was swapping the BIOS chip itself because I was testing different upgraded BIOSs for TQ and didn't want to end up with a bricked system. This was hardest to solve because I had swap chips multiple times. reset CMOS several times and completely remove power to the board to get it to clear. Kris
Hi all, It seems Kris had the right hint. With a different keyboard the "no video" problem never occured again. I cross my fingers that it will work with a KVM switch. Thanks! Regards, Tom
No problem. Just so you know. It would eventually boot, but it would take something like 3-5 minutes before it would boot and the video would come on. No idea why a keyboard is delaying the actual initiation of the boot process. Glad I could help. Kris
knifie - Let us know how you're doing. Also could you confirm if the HDAMA-I BIOS v1.23 PowerNow option supports the ACPI CPU p-states (use CPU-Z to see if your CPU frequency and voltage are scaling)?
Hello there tqhoang can you help me I would like to know if I could get the bootable cd of the HDAMAI bios v 1.12 or newer like 1.22 and could it have the Silicon Image 3114 SATA-RAID bios with it my Silicon Image 3114 SATA-RAID is onboared not pci card... Im trying to install windows server 2003 on Arima HDAMAI but I dont have a floppy drive to install the drivers from will the boot disk allow the install and If not thats kool lol maybe some 1 knows of an iso of windows server 2003 x64 withe the Silicon Image 3114 SATA-RAID drivers on it but I hope u can help me out and thank you so muck...
Sure...what I can do is make a boot disk with the v1.23 BIOS with either the SI SATA-RAID and SATA-Link BIOS integrated. What I can do is put the drivers I have on the non-bootable part of the ISO so it'll be visible from the Windows installer.
OH man tqhoang that would be great your the best and I really thank you so much for helping me and Ill cheek back soon ty ty tqhoang....
Hello tqhoang thank you for the bios cd above and thanks for the drivers this bios worked really good first update the 1.23 orig then 1.23 si5.5.0.0 you helped me alot with this one and thanks...I started the windows server and tryed windows xp pro both x64 I dont have a floppy drive so I used 2 drived one cd for the driver disk from above and one dvd with the install dvd press f6 but windows dont see the cd drive as a: windows cant find drive a: so Im stuck on the windows install I guess ill have to buy a floppy drive lol... But Im getting there all in all and thanks so much for the help tqhoang and for the dls...ps If ya know of a way to get windows install to see the drivers from the cd or some ways I should try b4 buy a floppy that would be cool....
Hello tqhoang yes the bios flash went all well and at this time I have Win 7 x64 working on the sataraid drivers I used the usb to install them thanks to you my friend I got this working all good at this time I didnt know that Win server 08 or Win 7 would work with the small video mem 8 mb but it server and the thing is A+ now thanks for all the help and info im taking a look at this site for info about Win xp and adding drivers to the cd so there is no need for floppy or f6.....Ill repoet on the PowerNow feature in the morrning...ty tqhoang ty....unattended.msfnorg/unattended.xp/view/web/1/
Off topic (kinda) I wish I had found these pages a few days earlier. Here's a summary of my past four days: I bought a Rackable C2001 for an on-stage audio system. The mobo is a HDAMA rev G (by Rioworks, not Arima, but there's no difference I guess) XP install from SATA CD drive - BSOD Win 7 32 and 64 install from SATA CD drive - ACPI error BIOS update from floppy to v2.18b - success, but the machine doesn't recognize the floppy drive any more Win Xp 32 install from IDE CD drive - success Win 7 32 and 64 install from IDE CD drive - success Win Xp configuration - all drivers found and installed (incl. SiI 3114) Win 7 32 configuration - all drivers found and installed (incl. SiI 3114, although it seems to work with an older 32 bit win driver and not the Win 7 one, but it definitely works) [*]Win 7 64 configuration: [*]-SATA doesn't work, [*]-the Win7 drivers downloaded from SI aren't recognized, [*]-the older 64 bit windows drivers are rejected due to the lack of digital signature [*]-the on-board SiI BIOS can't be updated [*]-etc. etc. After countless hours of try and error exercises and massacring +!%= zillion of my brain cells I accidentally found tqhoang's threads, listing all the errors I encountered in four days, including the solutions, BIOS update ISO files etc. All descriptions were clear, all solutions worked as described. The quality of this support is simply outstanding and it makes it even more apparent that the manufacturers of these products don't even try to make an effort to provide any useful information about them (and it's no excuse if we're talking about legacy products). Please let me know what you drink and where I should send it... Cheers, Endre
Hello Tqh. I just wanted to let you know that the server has been up for 16 days 18 hours and 51 minutes and has not frozen yet. It even survived transferring large amounts of data to sata connected HDDs (normally would freeze during that). I have transferred around 200-300GB when I was learning/practising how to install and boot Windows 7 over iSCSI. I will keep it up for a few more days then reboot it. I have installed some updates over a week ago and it's still saying "Restart to finish installing updates, please!" I see that more and more people come to this thread, read it through and solve their problems using existion solutions that you have prepared (such as bootable bios flashing CD images). What do you think about making a few pages long PDF guide to the most common problems with this board? I could attempt making one. I'm sure this would help some people. Once again, thanks for your support (it's been just about a year since I got this device and been receiving support from you). I think this server is finally working like it was supposed to do LOL, not any more... Read the new post.
Think a pdf would be a good idea, i remember the days of tearing my hair out when mine first arrived and then finding out i wasn't alone in this situation, safe to say ive had no problems with mine the only times ive had to restart have been for updates or hardware changes. the server is now my home server Config atm 2x opteron 2.40Ghz 4Gb Ram 3x 500gb sata 1x160Gb IDE and 80Gb IDE for the OS running server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 SP1 with Active directory DNS web server vmware running a voip server file sharing and soon to be adding exchange server too see how it copes Probably not the most taxing of uses, users with the same systems do you have running and your specs of the machines ?
OMG.. A few hours after saying everything has been good, I'd been flooded with 100 memory errors. The first one was at 18:19, the latest one 21:01. What could have gone wrong? This motherboard is so random! I thought it was the memory's fault, but now I'm just confused. @Warmo. If you go a few pages back you will find a post where I say what I'm using the server for. EDIT: Swapped the memory to bank 0 as advised by Tqhoang earlier, booted, it froze. Restarted ... we'll see how long it lasts for...
Just a quick thought guys, is it possible to get hyper-v working on these machines, because I need to think of some more uses for it as is using like 15-20% tops *sigh*. I was also having a look around on eBay for a new one of these puppies just for a webserver (development), shame my upload is only half a meg The specs of mine is 8gb ram, 2x opteron 280 and a pathetic 40gb os IDE and a 80gb one for data. USB external doesn't work properly either. But I think I will try putting 2 Sata drives back in it. I'm also up for helping out with a PDF
No Hyper-V I'm afraid... I think no processors of that socket (whatever it is) support Hardware Virtualisation. You can use anyother software such as VMware ... I forgot its name... VMWare Something (not Workstation) XD VMware Server. That's it! I don't know why I am getting freezes again. This server likes to destroy my good day. Let's wait for Tqhoang's opinion on the PDF guide.