HighNoon

I looked for the change notes but couldn't find any unfortunately. The latest BIOS (3.3) just looks to be an update to fix SPECTRE and that's it. Not sure what changes were made in 3.1 or 3.2.

I might but first I'm gonna try a new pair of chips. At first unRAID seemed to recognize the v2 chips just fine (reported correct CPU info and core/thread count) so I don't see any possible way that would happen if the BIOS didn't even properly support the v2 chips. At any rate I already boxed up the bad chips... time to try a different eBay seller.

Just curious how the BIOS might be causing an issue? According to SuperMicro's website v2 chip support requires BIOS version 3.0 or above and I'm on 3.0a The current version is 3.3 but I'm always wary of updating the BIOS if there aren't any issues a BIOS update will directly address. https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x9drl-if.cfm

After the new CPUs (E5-2650 v2) did not work I did try cleaning the pads with isopropyl but it did not make any difference. I'm mounting my old CPUs (E5-2620 v1) the exact same way as the new CPUs so I'm pretty sure the CPU mount isn't the issue. The CPU pins on the mobo (SuperMicro X9DRL-iF) appear to be 100% intact in both sockets.

I tried the GTX690 and long story short it worked just fine with the old CPUs but not at all with the new CPUs. Even after removing the GTX690 I could not get the system to even POST with the new CPUs (which it was doing before). Bottom line I think these CPUs are defective and I'm returning them. Thanks for the help!

The only other PCIe card I have lying around is a GTX690 so I’ll try that soon. Thanks!

Another update. I did as I mentioned previously and put the HBA and old CPUs back into my unRAID server and lo and behold everything is 100% fine. Seems to me that the new CPUs must be defective in some way unless I'm missing something. Any advice would be greatly appreciated before I return these CPUs to the seller.

I removed the HBA (LSI SAS9201-16i) from my unRAID server and installed it in my Windows machine. Windows seems to recognize it just fine. In device manager it is listed under "Storage controllers" as "LSI Adapter, SAS2 2116 Meteor ROC(E)". I guess as a next step I'll try putting the HBA back into my unRAID server and switching back to the old CPUs and see what happens. I'm not sure what about a simple CPU swap would cause my HBA to not be detected by unRAID... seems that CPU upgrades in unRAID machines should in theory be pretty painless.

Thanks for the advice. I’ll try the HBA in my other machine tonight and also try to swap back the CPUs and see if that changes anything.

I tried all of the x8 slots on my mobo and no difference between any of them. I also tried unplugging and replugging all the breakout cables and also after trying the other x8 slots I put the HBA back into the original PCIe slot and still nothing.

Oops forgot to include that info. I’m using a LSI SAS9201-16i for all HDDs and the SSD. The HBA is seated correctly and all the breakout cables are plugged firmly into the SAS ports. The heat sink on the HBA Is warm so it doesnt seem to be completely dead.

Tonight I upgraded my dual E5-2620 v1 CPUs to E5-2650 v2. Upgrade seemed to go well and unRAID recognizes the new CPUs but now all of my disks are missing in "Main" tab of the GUI. I have 13 HDDs (2 parity, 11 data) and 1 SSD (cache). All are missing. I thought maybe a cable had come loose so I checked all the connections in the server and everything seems to be plugged in just fine so I'm at a loss as to what could be going on and I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. I've attached diagnostics if needed. tower-diagnostics-20201116-2321.zip

I recently replaced my dying cache drive and performed a backup/restore using this plugin. Everything seems fine except my Plex libraries are missing. I'm pretty confident I followed all of the instructions correctly. If anyone has experienced this before or has an idea where I may have messed up I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. According to SuperMicro's site it shouldn't be an issue. https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRL-iF.cfm Any reason you recommend the 2680v2 in particular? Looks like they are about $180ea which is a little more than I was hoping to spend at the moment.

When I bought my SuperMicro X9DRL-IF mobo it came with 2x Xeon E5-2620 v1 CPUs. At the time they seemed fine but I think I'm really in need of an upgrade now as I add more users to my PLEX server. Has anyone upgraded from an E5-2620 v1 or similar to a v2 chip and thought it was worth it? Any suggestions on which particular CPU to upgrade to? As far as I understand I should be able to use any socket 2011 (but not 2011-1 or 2011-3) 2xxx Xeon chip.