ASUS KRPA-U16 - Bi-Furcation

[gb00s]

I know some used this motherboard for ES CPU overclocking in the past. But I'm more interested if this board has bi-furcation enabled? ASUS server boards are not known to have bi-furcation activated until someone mods the bios. This board is dumped on eBay currently for ~200 EUR being able to run 3rd Gen EPYCs like my fav 7313/7343s. Form factor is perfect. I also have confirmation that NVDimm-N shall work flawless. I'm not very eager to mod the bios for bi-furcation until someone can do that with 99.9% confidence not to break anything.

So if someone could confirm bi-furcation works here, that would be awesome. I really tried to find source for confirmation, but failed in the last week.

 

[RolloZ170]

I'm not very eager to mod the bios for bi-furcation until someone can do that with 99.9% confidence not to break anything.

have seen this board with an unused DIL8 socket. BIOS modding will be possible without risk then.
some settings are there, don't know if they are accessible or hidden. and any time there is a risk if even we make them visible they are not working.

 

[EdwardTwiss]

have seen this board with an unused DIL8 socket. BIOS modding will be possible without risk then.
some settings are there, don't know if they are accessible or hidden. and any time there is a risk if even we make them visible they are not working.

gb00s did you have any luck with your testing? I have an ES CPU and a KNPA-U16 and I'm looking to install a NVME PCIe x16 card that needs bifurcation.
ASUS don't give any info on that subject for the KNPA-U16.
Great little motherboard but there's not that much info online for it.

 

[pnp_PioNer]

hi all !
I have an epic 7002 and I am also very interested in the possibility of bifurcation on KRPA-U16
Here's what I found on the asus website in the bios updates section

But I don 't understand where to find the settings of this functionality !

 

[pnp_PioNer]

Me again.
I have 2 custom bios for asus krpa-u16 for Milan and ROME based on Version 0701(Milan) and Version 4501(ROME). They have been working properly on my boards for over a year, dividing SNLOT No. 1 pci-e x16 into 4x4x4x4.
But I recently received a board with firmware Version 1002(Milan) and was unable to downgrade the bios version. The firmware message says that "the version I'm trying to flash is older than the one that has already been flashed".
Question: does anyone know how to downgrade the bios version?
bmc, flash from bios and dos works without problems, but everywhere there is a failure for the reason mentioned above.