Hi everyone,

I have a H67 chipset motherboard that I want to use with unraid. I see that it is not recommended, is that simply because of the sata ports? If so, could i just buy a recommended sata card and plug all of my sata ports into those?

 

I'm feeling kind of like an idiot because I just bought this computer from ebay for super cheap because the cpu is low power, fast, and supports vt-d but didn't see that the motherboard is unsupported until it is too late.

 

Thanks!

Why do you think there's an issue with your H67 motherboard?  While there may be some specific motherboard implementation that uses that (or any other) chipset that has some incompabilities, in general there's no reason an H67 based board won't work just fine.

 

Certainly simple enough to try -- just create a bootable USB flash drive and confirm whether or not it boots okay -- you don't need ANY disks to test that.

 

As long as it is the B3 revision you have nothing to worry about.

Had a H67 Mainbord in the past and no issues with it so the H67-Chipset its working perfect.

Thanks for the replies everyone! Phew, I'm glad that I have a good chance at this working.

 

@garycase The reason why I was concerned was this particular quote from the designing an unraid server wiki that I noticed after I purchased the hardware: "Unsupported Chipsets: Intel H61, P67, H67, Z68, Q67, Q65, B65, Z77, Z75, H77, Q77, Q75, B75, Z87, H87, B85, Q87""

 

@johnnie.black I'm not sure if it is a B3 revision yet but I will definitely check it out when it comes in a week. The documentation page isn't toospecific

Thanks for the replies everyone! Phew, I'm glad that I have a good chance at this working.

 

@garycase The reason why I was concerned was this particular quote from the designing an unraid server wiki that I noticed after I purchased the hardware: "Unsupported Chipsets: Intel H61, P67, H67, Z68, Q67, Q65, B65, Z77, Z75, H77, Q77, Q75, B75, Z87, H87, B85, Q87""

 

@johnnie.black I'm not sure if it is a B3 revision yet but I will definitely check it out when it comes in a week. The documentation page isn't toospecific

 

The unsupported list is for ECC ram and not for unraid support 

 

Check that the memory matches the motherboard's DIMM slots. Also, check if your motherboard chipset supports ECC RAM. A list of chipsets that support ECC RAM is shown below.

Also, the board you linked uses the H61 chipset, the recall only affected the P67 and H67 B2 stepping chipsets.

Perfect, I was wondering why they had that sentence in the memory section, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks everyone- so the motherboard will work great but I just can't buy ECC ram and expect it to work. No problem!

 

(Although as a side note I wish it would allow me to buy ECC ram even if it didn't use that ECC feature, used server ram is so much more plentiful on ebay.)

 

Thanks again!