LGA 1700 Alder Lake "Servers"

[nva]

I just bought Asrock Industrial IMB-1230 and got into problem. Initially it can't boot with 13th gen and I had to borrow a 12th gen to upgrade BIOS. Now the 13th gen CPU can boot into BIOS just fine but can't boot into any drive, including UEFI flash drives.

Specs say DDR4 3200 SO-DIMM but i'm running on single SO-DIMM stick of DDR4 2666. It shouldn't be the problem, right?

I think there's a bent pin in the socket, but since CPU can go into BIOS it also wouldn't be the cause.

I found the problem. This Asrock industrial board boots just fine without X710-DA2 plugged in. The NIC is x8 and was working fine. I don't know what's the reason it refuses to work in x16 slot in this board.

This X710-DA2 is working with other boards. Other NICs, including old Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards, boot with this IMB-1230 board. But 2 of them does not boot together.

 

[Qiuzman]

So for a small esxi build PFsense/windows server/windows 11/etc would the imb-1231 not be a good option due to the LAN card? I am fine living with ddr4 and non-ecc ram. It’s only 300 dollars which seemed like a decent price.

 

[Stankyjawnz]

So for a small esxi build PFsense/windows server/windows 11/etc would the imb-1231 not be a good option due to the LAN card? I am fine living with ddr4 and non-ecc ram. It’s only 300 dollars which seemed like a decent price.

For a small pfsense/virtualization machine have you seen the minipcs?

https://www.servethehome.com/almost-a-decade-in-the-making-our-fanless-intel-i3-n305-2-5gbe-firewall-review/

If you're ok without ecc I'd look into these you can get a whole system for around the price of that motherboard.

 

[zir_blazer]

I'm looking for W680 boards that have Intel Boot Guard disabled and ME in Manufacturing Mode (Albeit I recall than on some boards this was a Jumper, so it may potentially change) to propose as possible targets to port Coreboot to them. My prefered target was the ASUS PRO WS W680-ACE (IPMI or normal), but the more information, the better.

If you want to help, you need to:
Install whatever package in your Linux distribution provides msr-tools. Then run from a Terminal:

sudo modprobe msr
sudo rdmsr 0x13a

And report back output. If Boot Guard is enabled, it is not possible to do it without vendor support.

There is a far more convoluted procedure to use intelmetool that also tells whenever the ME is in Manufacturing Mode, but is not as simple: BootGuard status

Boot with iomem=relaxed.
sudo modprobe msr
git clone --depth=1 https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot
cd coreboot/util/intelmetool && make
sudo ./intelmetool -b

But this is overkill.

 

[unwind-protect]

Any DDR4 taking boards for $350? Can't see any.

 

[reasonsandreasons]

I got my Asrock IMB-X1314 for around that, but they're hard to come by. Works well, though, plus or minus IPMI (currently using the AMT firmware loader).

 

[vamega]

I think the GigaIPC mITX-Q67EB would work.
DDR4, i226, ~$250.

 

[ServerSemi]

I'm thinking of getting a 14900K and I wonder who makes the most stable mobo nowdays?