Well as it turns out: i can`t seem to be able to push the videoperformance on these HDAMA`s, so i placed a bid on a Tyan K8WE that has pci-ex support. They already have 2 280`s installed.. Let`s wait and see...
Well, i did boot Fedora from a usb-stick, so it shouldn`t be any problem. I`d start with a complete reset of the bios (cmos defaults by jumper and then power on, check if it did, reset, and set the options: Be sure to read the sidelines at boot-priority: there`s a lot of info e.g. there might be more devices under one line. +, - and shift+1 do various things. Be sure and take your time. Disabling certain devices might push the bios to stay with a found usb-stick and not walk over it, so to speak. Furthermore there`s a setting for legacy usb and usb enabling in one of the 2 or 3 first tabs. I always keep both of them on enabled. check wether one of the usb-ports works better than the other. That`s it i guess, G`luck!
Ok I stand corrected. My HDAMB workstation board might be a little different, but perhaps the USB 2.0 ports (through VIA chip) are not bootable...only the on-board USB 1.1 ports (through AMD chipset) are bootable. I'll have to test that out since I'm using my keyboard & mouse in the on-board ports because of the USB Legacy feature.
It sure sounds like the graphics chip and/or the video memory is bad or overheating. My Sapphire ATI HD3850 AGP had problems one day where it corrupted the screen even the BIOS boot screen...got a replacement and everything is good. Good luck!
Help Newbie Here Assistance Please (Options) I'm on my second MoBo with this build. It's an Arima HDAMA-I, bios "Phoenix ServerBios v3 1.11r51" I believe (at work right now). No O/S is installed on the system. The Server is going to be mainly mymovies server with Server 2008 r2 for the O/S. Currently there is only the keyboard and one SATA drive connect to the MoBo (besides CPUs & RAM). Also has the IPMI 2.0 card installed. The system won't recognize the only SATA drive as the Primary Master, even though it's recognizes in the boot devices and also the RAID BIOS. What is my current options for the system? Acquire and IDE HDD & DVD drive, install the an O/S, flash/upgrade the bios, and install Server 2008 or is there another path I can take?
Have you had a chance to do a bios mod for th Opteron 275, Ijust gotone of ebay and I am trying to install windows server 2008 and it's blue screening. Saying ACPI Complient. It's a HDAMA-1 V1.12 Bios. Amd Opteron (italy) 275 (DP) Thx I really appreciate your work
You already have the latest BIOS for the HDAMA-I. If that still causes the "not ACPI compliant" message, then you need to contact your vendor. My ACPI DSDT table mod only adds hard-coded p-state entries the specific Opteron processor...this was only to get AMD PowerNow (aka frequency/voltage scaling) to work with Windows Vista/7/2008[R2]. The guys with the HDAMA-revG were luckily able to find the 2.18 beta BIOS that seemed to work for them. Perhaps you can locate a similar beta BIOS for the HDAMA-I?
Okay thanks for the update, I will try and hunt down the vendor. It's made by rackable systems. So maybe they have something.
I read some posts regarding corrupt ACPI table(s) in the NVRAM. Have you tried removing the power & battery and then shorting the CMOS jumper? Also can you download a Fedora Linux LiveCD and see if it complains about the ACPI in the "dmesg" output?
Okay, I removed the power and shorted it via the jumper...Still the same error downloading fedora now. Is the desktop version okay to test?
Okay, that came up with the following [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS. Pretty much the same as the BSOD from windows.
Also got this...not sure if it's useful powernow-k8: Found 1 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 processors (4 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS.
unsure of model i have a RIOWORKS HDAMA with the same problem not sure what mobo version is got it of ebay and doesnt specify which one it is.
This error just means that the p-state objects are missing. It's only necessary for frequency/voltage scaling to be done via ACPI instead of other proprietary methods. Unfortunately your problem with Windows is something more fundamental in the BIOS. What I'll do is build an HDAMA-I v1.12 with my ACPI mod for the Opteron 275. In doing this, I actually recompile the ACPI DSDT table using the Intel ASL compiler...give me a few hours since I need to look a few things up.