juchong Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 Hi everyone! I know folks have been talking about the E3C246D4U (mini-ITX), but does anyone know if there's a similarly well-supported ATX board that you'd recommend? I have a U.2 drive that I use as my main cache drive along with an M.2, Intel fiber card, and the JBOD controller, so a mini-ITX board won't really cut it. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 28 minutes ago, juchong said: the E3C246D4U Actually this is a Micro-ATX board with 3 PCIe slots and an M.2 slot. Perhaps the SuperMicro X11SCA-W would be more to your liking if you really need a full ATX socket 1151 board and do not need IPMI. Quote Link to comment
juchong Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 IPMI is high on my list of "wants" for sure. I assumed that the M.2 slot was shared with Slot #5, but now I'm not sure after reading through the product page. My current setup uses an i9 9900k and a C9Z390-PGW, so it's not "bad", but I really miss IPMI, accurate temperature readings, and ECC. Quote Link to comment
WisdomWolf Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 On 1/4/2021 at 10:52 AM, Plaidy said: What's the word? I went ahead and installed L2.34 that he had made available. It does have IGFX option and works for Plex transcoding, unlike the P2.30 version that came installed by default. 1 Quote Link to comment
Rick Sanchez Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Can't find the CPU or MOBO in the UK Quote Link to comment
Plaidy Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 11 hours ago, Rick Sanchez said: Can't find the CPU or MOBO in the UK If you don't mind losing a pcie slot but gaining an M.2 slot and not being able to run Core series CPUs/non-ECC RAM you could see if you could get your hands on a Super Micro X11SCH-F. I was talking to someone awhile back that confirmed they have used the IPMI functionality and the iGPU simultaneously with that board. Quote Link to comment
juchong Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Hi folks, I appreciate the recommendation (and the efforts on getting the updated BIOS from ASRock)! I swapped my old setup over to the new board, processor, and RAM without any issues. 1 Quote Link to comment
parisv Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 17 hours ago, Rick Sanchez said: Can't find the CPU or MOBO in the UK Yeah the motherboard was really hard to get. I got mine from [email protected] Sign up to stock alerts on https://www.lambda-tek.com/ they get them from time to time. Quote Link to comment
Rick Sanchez Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 What CPU and RAM is everyone using with this setup - AsRock Rack E3C246D4U? - Is this the 'go-to' board at the moment? I'd like to copy your systems as it will be easier to problem solve any issues that I have! Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 24 minutes ago, Rick Sanchez said: What CPU and RAM is everyone using with this setup - AsRock Rack E3C246D4U? Most of us have the Xeon E-2288G or E-2278G processor; however, the board also supports various 9th generation Coffee Lake S Core, Pentium and Celeron processors with non-ECC RAM. Personally, I would not have bought a server board if I wanted non-ECC RAM and a non Xeon processor, but they are supported. For those of us with Xeon CPUs that support ECC RAM, most of use something similar to these modules: 32GB ECC RAM - https://memory.net/product/m391a4g43mb1-ctd-samsung-1x-32gb-ddr4-2666-ecc-udimm-pc4-21300v-e-dual-rank-x8-module/ 16GB ECC RAM - https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-KSM26ED8-16ME-Server-Premier/dp/B07BGDG5ZP 16GB ECC RAM - https://memory.net/product/hma82gu7afr8n-uh-sk-hynix-1x-16gb-ddr4-2400-udimm-pc4-19200t-e-dual-rank-x8-module/ For non-ECC RAM, I have no idea. Personally, I have the E-2288G and the 2x32GB Samsung ECC RAM 1 Quote Link to comment
parisv Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 the E-2246G is worth a look at too. 2 Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 I just updated the BIOS to 2.34. Update via IPMI went fine and I only had to make a few minor settings changes. Previously, IPMI was reporting an 85C MB temp even though unRAID showed it at 27C. After the update, IPMI agrees with the 27C temp. Only time will tell if it gets out of whack again as it has on all other BIOS versions. On 2.21 BIOS it was even starting to report card side temp in the 80s but after the last reboot when I upgraded my cache drive that was reset. 3 Quote Link to comment
kaiguy Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 What a coincidence. I too upgraded today. I wasn't running into any problems--just my standard need to run the latest and greatest. Only 5ish hours of uptime but all seems to be going well so far. Aside from having to re-enable the onboard graphics item, I don't think I had to make any other config changes. One BIOS setting I never noticed before but did exist in the 2.21 BIOS is a setting for HDD or SDD for onboard SATA disks. Anyone know what the purpose of that is? 1 Quote Link to comment
parisv Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) where can I download the 2.34 bios from? @Hoopster which settings did you have to change? Thanks Edited January 29, 2021 by parisv Quote Link to comment
Plaidy Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 34 minutes ago, parisv said: where can I download the 2.34 bios from? @Hoopster which settings did you have to change? Thanks https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsari9h7v2lxtjo/E246D4U2.34?dl=0 1 Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, parisv said: where can I download the 2.34 bios from? @Hoopster which settings did you have to change? Of course, I had to enable the new IGFX option but, even though "Preserve BIOS Configuration" was checked, I needed to disable the hardware inventory check again. For me, it is a long wait at boot for information that is not useful with my server. There was one other small thing, but I forgot what it was. Everything else seemed to stick around from the prior BIOS settings (Boot settings, BMC settings, etc.) Edited January 29, 2021 by Hoopster 1 Quote Link to comment
kaiguy Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Hoopster said: Of course, I had to enable the new IGFX option Hey Hoop, was that the exact wording for you? Truth be told I think mine still said onboard. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, kaiguy said: Hey Hoop, was that the exact wording for you? Truth be told I think mine still said onboard. There is still an option for Onboard (which I also enabled) but I think that now applies to the VGA output for the BMC only. IGFX is what needs to be enabled for the iGPU. This appears to be the replacement for the "multi-monitor" option in previous BIOS version. Edited January 29, 2021 by Hoopster 1 Quote Link to comment
kaiguy Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 10 minutes ago, Hoopster said: IGFX is what needs to be enabled for the iGPU. This appears to be the replacement for the "multi-monitor" option in previous BIOS version. You're absolutely right. I don't remember seeing that, but it was enabled. Maybe I need to stop multitasking when I'm doing server maintenance. Also took your lead and disabled inventory. Everything running smoothly. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 18 hours ago, Hoopster said: Previously, IPMI was reporting an 85C MB temp even though unRAID showed it at 27C. After the update, IPMI agrees with the 27C temp. Only time will tell if it gets out of whack again as it has on all other BIOS versions. Well, that did not last long. Both unRAID (System Temp plugin) and IPMI are now reporting an MB temperature of 84C. Of course, they both supposedly read the same nct6791 sensor. It was always interesting to me that most times System Temp in unRAID was reporting a 27-32C temp and IPMI was just stuck on 80 something. After a server reboot, the unRAID temp usually is correct again but IPMI temp never changes. Quote Link to comment
rmadden80 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) I purchased the ASRock Rack E3C246D4U and there is a way to enable the iGPU without installing the beta BIOS. I'm currently running P2.30 with iGPU enabled. There is a key combination you need to press when booting your system. After powering on the boot splash screen will display the ASRock Rack image and the message “Updating FRU system devices”. When you see "Updating FRU system devices" press ctrl+alt+F3 and it will load the BIOS menu. In BIOS menu, you will see an additional page labeled IntelRC Chipset. Select System Agent (SA) Configuration, then Graphics Configuration, and then Enable IGPU Multi-Monitor. Edited February 1, 2021 by rmadden80 1 2 Quote Link to comment
parisv Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 If I wanted to pair 2 nics is that possible? I have a switch where I can set an lacp trunk. Quote Link to comment
LateNight Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 7 minutes ago, parisv said: If I wanted to pair 2 nics is that possible? I have a switch where I can set an lacp trunk. Yes, I've had it that way since installing it. Quote Link to comment
parisv Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 ah ok I was wondering if it could be set on the motherboard h/w instead of software but I guess really same outcome. do you still use one of those ports for the ipmi or do you use the dedicated nic for that because at the moment mine is via eth0 Quote Link to comment
LateNight Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 The E3C246D4U has a dedicated LAN port in addition to the two Intel ports. I've also added a 10G card. Quote Link to comment
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