Greetings,
I recently made some changes to my home server. It was previously running:
Operating System: Windows Server 2022 LTSC (Build 20348)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: 4x 16 (64GB) 3200MHz ECC unbuffered DDR4
Motherboard: ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE, BIOS/UEFI version 4101
Network Card: On-board Intel I211-AT + Dedicated Intel X550-T2
Graphics Card: Intel Arc A380
OS Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVMe/M.2
Additional Storage: 8x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 14TB in RAID1+0, with 2x Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA SSD as cache using Windows Storage Spaces.
Server 2022 running Hyper-V, DHCP, DNS and AD roles. 4x Virtual Machines running in Hyper-V.
It got changed into:
Operating System: Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Core (23H2 / Build 25398)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: 4x 16 (64GB) 3200MHz ECC unbuffered DDR4
Motherboard: ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE, BIOS/UEFI version 4501
Network Card: On-board Intel I211-AT + Dedicated Intel X550-T2
Graphics Card: Intel Arc A380
OS Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe/M.2
Additional Storage: 4x Samsung PM9A3 7.6TB NVMe/U.2 in RAID0 using Windows Storage Spaces
Windows Server 2022 runs the same Hyper-V, DHCP, DNS and AD roles. 4x Virtual Machines running in Hyper-V. But this time, it's Server Core (no GUI), which also gives access to a slightly newer version of Windows Server 2022 via 23H2 / 25398.
After the change, my server keeps having lockups/freezes. It's almost certain to happen at least once within 48 hours. There is nothing in Event Viewer pointing at anything other than Event Viewer not logging anything after the lockup/freeze has occurred. I have to power cycle the server for it to start working again. Then it works perfectly fine regardless of the load I put on it until it suddenly freezes again, requiring another forced reboot.
I have installed all the latest AMD chipset drivers, Intel drivers etc.. Consider removing the drivers, as all the hardware has plug 'n' play drivers out of the box. But I did run with dedicated drivers previously without any issues.
Is anyone else having a bad experience running AMD X570, Ryzen, and Windows Server? I had BSOD running Windows Server 2022 when IOMMU was enabled in the BIOS/firmware. But this got fixed. And this time I don't have any BSOD, it just freezes completely. Running without IOMMU is not an option, considering the server will run as a hypervisor.
I recently made some changes to my home server. It was previously running:
Operating System: Windows Server 2022 LTSC (Build 20348)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: 4x 16 (64GB) 3200MHz ECC unbuffered DDR4
Motherboard: ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE, BIOS/UEFI version 4101
Network Card: On-board Intel I211-AT + Dedicated Intel X550-T2
Graphics Card: Intel Arc A380
OS Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVMe/M.2
Additional Storage: 8x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 14TB in RAID1+0, with 2x Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA SSD as cache using Windows Storage Spaces.
Server 2022 running Hyper-V, DHCP, DNS and AD roles. 4x Virtual Machines running in Hyper-V.
It got changed into:
Operating System: Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Core (23H2 / Build 25398)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: 4x 16 (64GB) 3200MHz ECC unbuffered DDR4
Motherboard: ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE, BIOS/UEFI version 4501
Network Card: On-board Intel I211-AT + Dedicated Intel X550-T2
Graphics Card: Intel Arc A380
OS Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe/M.2
Additional Storage: 4x Samsung PM9A3 7.6TB NVMe/U.2 in RAID0 using Windows Storage Spaces
Windows Server 2022 runs the same Hyper-V, DHCP, DNS and AD roles. 4x Virtual Machines running in Hyper-V. But this time, it's Server Core (no GUI), which also gives access to a slightly newer version of Windows Server 2022 via 23H2 / 25398.
After the change, my server keeps having lockups/freezes. It's almost certain to happen at least once within 48 hours. There is nothing in Event Viewer pointing at anything other than Event Viewer not logging anything after the lockup/freeze has occurred. I have to power cycle the server for it to start working again. Then it works perfectly fine regardless of the load I put on it until it suddenly freezes again, requiring another forced reboot.
I have installed all the latest AMD chipset drivers, Intel drivers etc.. Consider removing the drivers, as all the hardware has plug 'n' play drivers out of the box. But I did run with dedicated drivers previously without any issues.
Is anyone else having a bad experience running AMD X570, Ryzen, and Windows Server? I had BSOD running Windows Server 2022 when IOMMU was enabled in the BIOS/firmware. But this got fixed. And this time I don't have any BSOD, it just freezes completely. Running without IOMMU is not an option, considering the server will run as a hypervisor.