Did you try masking the SMBus pins on the PCIe card? I've had to do that with my ConnectX-4 LX NIC in my gen5 Tiny to keep the system happy.
Lenovo Thinkcentre/ThinkStation Tiny (Project TinyMiniMicro) Reference Thread
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Not sure if anyone responded, but m920x is supported by Opencore, you might be able to disable it there.
Just tried that, no difference, but many thanks for responding and suggesting it.
If anyone interested in the PCIe riser card that works with a video card then let me know. I just don't think it will work with a nic..... I may eventually try and find a 5C50W00909 which is the smaller x4 PCIe....
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Does anyone have an m920q/x with Coreboot and can confirm whether or not the PCI adapter NIC has its interfaces in separate IOMMU groups?
Hi everyone,
I am currently trying to find more information about the M910x. Unfortunately I am a bit overwhelmed with 125 pages of forum to find specific information.
I bought the M910x to set up a second ESXi in my office apartment for smarthome etc. So far I have used the HP Microserver gen8 but this is no longer really up to date. I will miss the ILO but find the current HP Microserver too expensive compared to what the M910x has to offer.
To my questions:
Which current CPUs are supported with Bios Mod? I would like to use a XEON to have as many threats as possible for virtualization.
Which TDP is ideal for the M910x?
How much RAM is supported with a modified BIOS?
How do I get a modified BIOS?
Many thanks for your help!
I am currently trying to find more information about the M910x. Unfortunately I am a bit overwhelmed with 125 pages of forum to find specific information.
I bought the M910x to set up a second ESXi in my office apartment for smarthome etc. So far I have used the HP Microserver gen8 but this is no longer really up to date. I will miss the ILO but find the current HP Microserver too expensive compared to what the M910x has to offer.
To my questions:
Which current CPUs are supported with Bios Mod? I would like to use a XEON to have as many threats as possible for virtualization.
Which TDP is ideal for the M910x?
How much RAM is supported with a modified BIOS?
How do I get a modified BIOS?
Many thanks for your help!
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The upcoming tiny generation seems to have an interesting update, losing the sata port and adding another 2280 slot. Unfortunately it still seems to stick with the onboard GbE. Not much more interesting things it seems, was hoping for one thunderbolt port by default, but still seems optional.
Personally most excited about the additional NVME slot!
Personally most excited about the additional NVME slot!
I just got the Lenovo P330. Quick question — is it possible to swap a non-T CPU for a T-series one like the i9-9900T?
Looks like both use LGA 1151/FCLGA1151, so I’m thinking it should work, but not 100% sure about any quirks with power or BIOS. Anyone tried this?
Looks like both use LGA 1151/FCLGA1151, so I’m thinking it should work, but not 100% sure about any quirks with power or BIOS. Anyone tried this?
Yes works fine, p330 has also the full copper cooler for it.
If you are putting a T series cpu in don't bother changing the heatsink as you gain nothing, the aluminum 35w heatsink never saturates with a T series CPU. if you are going to a non T cpu get a 65W heatsink and the correct fan or you will get thermal throttling after around 7-8 minutes of 100% cpu load. My i5-9500 would throttle without the copper 65w heatsink/fan combo.
From experience, I agree with this. Let me add that while I love the P330, I think the 65w version would really benefit from an open grill. I think the fan is starved for air and spin faster than it would otherwise.
The top cover of the P330 does have a perforated area for CPU fan airflow. Are you referring to the front panel?
Sorry I was referring to the front panel part which is attached to the top cover Airflow seems fine as you can feel the heat build up at the rear of the case rather than above the cpu itself when using the copper cooler.
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Hi guys, thank to @Parallax for this awesome thread.
I have some questions.
I recently bought 2 m920q and i'm planning to use one them for proxmox with this Tp-Link 10G nic
and the other m920q for standalone true nas with same nic.
But here is the tricky part; sata card.
I'm planning to use m.2 a+e key to m.2 nvme card or riser then plug in it sata expand card.After that i'm planning to software raid5 or raidz1 using truenas.
My questions are;
1)Does anyone use tplink tx401? is it compatible with m920q?
2) m.2 e key port on the machine is pcie 3 x1. Is there any speed limitation?Because pcie 3.0 x1 speed is 8GT/s(0.985GB/s)
I have some questions.
I recently bought 2 m920q and i'm planning to use one them for proxmox with this Tp-Link 10G nic
and the other m920q for standalone true nas with same nic.
But here is the tricky part; sata card.
I'm planning to use m.2 a+e key to m.2 nvme card or riser then plug in it sata expand card.After that i'm planning to software raid5 or raidz1 using truenas.
My questions are;
1)Does anyone use tplink tx401? is it compatible with m920q?
2) m.2 e key port on the machine is pcie 3 x1. Is there any speed limitation?Because pcie 3.0 x1 speed is 8GT/s(0.985GB/s)
You will need to find a way to power the sata drives externally as the m.2 port wont be able to deliver the required power. If I recall correctly the m.2 port only has 3.3v and 1.8v, most sata drives will require 5v (12v for 3.5 inch drives). There are some unused pads on the board that have 12v, 5v and 3.3v supply but I'm unsure about the total amps you can pull from these safely. Speed limitations should only be an issue if you are using something like RAID 0 I believe.
it might be possible to obtain power for the drives by modifying the ribbon cable for the 2.5 sata drive. Hopefully someone else has done this and give you a bit better guidance.
Actually i'm planning to design 3d case like this ThinkNAS but more bay and i will use external power supply cable.