Cheap chinese x79 mobos

[[Nobody]]

I have a E5-2630 V2. chipset is afaik a Q79, however, the upper two ports are connected to the CPU.

 

[RolloZ170]

I have a E5-2630 V2. chipset is afaik a Q79, however, the upper two ports are connected to the CPU.

Q79 does not exists? check CPU-Z or HWinfo.
PlexHD X79T use Q77 B75 chipset, the BIOS may not work with other chipset then.

 

[RolloZ170]

I have a E5-2630 V2

try setting the target Slot of the H240 to PCIe 2.0 manualy(not AUTO).
then check with the H240. if it works, set the target Slot to PCIe 3.0 manualy(not AUTO) and check again.

 

[[Nobody]]

The chipset is a B75. Setting it to PCIe 2.0 didn't solve it.

The problem was: I had to disable " Launch disk controller (or something like that) OpROM Policy". After that it worked like a charm
thank you for your help

 

[RolloZ170]

I had to disable " Launch disk controller (or something like that) OpROM Policy".

thought this is changed automaticaly by set UEFI-Boot.
anyway, nice you got it to work

 

[RolloZ170]

The chipset is a B75

if you plan to update the BIOS with a one from other boards i.e. PlexHD make first a dump of your current BIOS with a USB programmer(ch341a or similar). i recommend a BIOS which is from a board which uses B75 too. some say different chipset works, some not, personaly i would never use a BIOS from diff.chipset.

 

[Vit K]

Hi,

I got an Atermiter X79 Turbo. Is this Motherboard capable to use UEFI?

Every motherboard can use UEFI, via coreboot for example. All Chinese X79 motherboards have UEFI APTIO 4 firmware. What do you need it for? NVME boot?

 

[mikeleo1157]

Does anyone know if these board would boot fine without a graphics card of some sort?

 

[[Nobody]]

the Atermiter X79 Turbo does boot fine without GPU

 

[kriansa]

the Atermiter X79 Turbo does boot fine without GPU

What do you use when you need to change things at the BIOS? Some sort of USB video card?

 

[[Nobody]]

What do you use when you need to change things at the BIOS? Some sort of USB video card?

I have several options
- swap the 10g nic with a GPU
- swap the 10g nic with a PCIE expander and connect a GPU with it
- use one of these PCIe 1x --> 16x expander