Asus x-399-a and tesla m10: can’t finish POST

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Polnoch

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So, I have home lab(I have ZFS, qemu-kvm and kubernetes there), based on Asus x-399-a, tr-1920x, 64GB RAM. And I bought tesla m10 for this home lab. I’ve tested this GPU in the three different PC:


  1. very old machine - based on Asus desktop motherboard, with Xeon x5680 (initially it had i7-920). Sorry, don’t remember the exact name of mobo.
  2. another machine, with MSI motherboard (sorry, don’t remember mobo’s name too) and i9-9900ks CPU
  3. ASRock X670E PG Lightning + Ryzen 7 7800X3D

And it works as expected - I want to use this GPU for Ollama/LLM inference


But when I’m trying to use this GPU with my home lab’s mobo: Asus x-399-a it can’t finish the post:

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It always in stuck with this non-sense updating RGB


Of course, I’ve disabled everything related to RGB in BIOS. Also, I tried a lot of other things, like upgrading BIOS to the next version, like downgrading video bios of Tesla m10 to previous version.


I wrote on Tom’s hardware what I already tried to do: Question - Boot issue with Tesla M10 ? | Tom's Hardware Forum


I’m considering radical solutions, like custom BIOS ROM for mobo. Or kinda of hardware solutions for miners: is it possible to switch on GPU when my Linux loaded, and just rescan PCI devices?
 

nexox

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Long shot, but perhaps the LED firmware uses SMBUS and the M10 has a conflict, you could try taping the SMBUS pins off on the PCIe connector of the M10 (there are sources around about how to do this but I haven't personally tried it so I can't walk you through it myself.)