Hi guys,
I was just wondering what kind of luck other users have been having with the Supermicro X9S series socket 1155 motherboards and add-on PCI-e controller cards. I have 2 of these boards and 4 out of the 5 cards I have tried have each required me to contact Supermicro support about having corrections made to the BIOS (I have needed a new BIOS issued for almost every card I've tried!).
So far the problem cards have been:
IBM BR10i SAS controller
Adaptec 3405 RAID Controller
Intel "PT" quad port NIC
Intel "PT" dual port NIC
The only card I've tried that worked without issue has been an Intel "CT" NIC.
Supermicro support has generally been pretty responsive & cooperative with getting these fixed BIOS's to me, but it took almost a month to get the quad-port "PT" NIC working and that required them adding in some specific options that forced (I believe) the entire system to revert all the PCI-e slots to run in 1x mode. It's certainly been a lot more trouble making the system work reliably with all these common controller cards than I expected and I'm kind of concerned about future BIOS updates because I'm not sure the fixes I needed will actually be rolled into future BIOS releases.
So tell me guys, if you have one of these boards what sort of luck have you had?
-Will
I was just wondering what kind of luck other users have been having with the Supermicro X9S series socket 1155 motherboards and add-on PCI-e controller cards. I have 2 of these boards and 4 out of the 5 cards I have tried have each required me to contact Supermicro support about having corrections made to the BIOS (I have needed a new BIOS issued for almost every card I've tried!).
So far the problem cards have been:
IBM BR10i SAS controller
Adaptec 3405 RAID Controller
Intel "PT" quad port NIC
Intel "PT" dual port NIC
The only card I've tried that worked without issue has been an Intel "CT" NIC.
Supermicro support has generally been pretty responsive & cooperative with getting these fixed BIOS's to me, but it took almost a month to get the quad-port "PT" NIC working and that required them adding in some specific options that forced (I believe) the entire system to revert all the PCI-e slots to run in 1x mode. It's certainly been a lot more trouble making the system work reliably with all these common controller cards than I expected and I'm kind of concerned about future BIOS updates because I'm not sure the fixes I needed will actually be rolled into future BIOS releases.
So tell me guys, if you have one of these boards what sort of luck have you had?
-Will