NVMe on Intel S2600CP

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Any ideas if a E5-16xx V2 chip will work in this board? ARK only lists the 26xx v1/v2 series, but wondering if 16xx chip will work fine in single processor configuration.
 
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frogtech said:
I can't believe they blundered something that badly.
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It doesn't exist if you use v2 CPUs though. So if you have access to that then you can essentially get rid of that bug. :)

I'm using E5-2670s with a S2600CP4 board and a GTX 1060 at PCIe 2.0 and it runs pretty well. I don't think there's that much of a performance drop for me at least.
 
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Which 1060? Did you need to do anything specific to work? Which forbear versions? Thanks!!
 
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Monoman said:
Which 1060? Did you need to do anything specific to work? Which forbear versions? Thanks!!
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Zotac GTX 1060 Mini, anything larger and it wouldn't get past the additional ram slots. Not really I think?

Pretty straight forward bios settings.

forbear?
 
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Hahaha. I was thinking if it really was firmware or you were asking something specific.

I just use the latest S2600CP4 firmware. There's a guide in this thread for the downgrade and I can do it perfectly well so I'm not really afraid of it. The GPU doesn't work well with the downgraded firmware anyway. I don't think it even boots.
 
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zanechua said:
Hahaha. I was thinking if it really was firmware or you were asking something specific.

I just use the latest S2600CP4 firmware. There's a guide in this thread for the downgrade and I can do it perfectly well so I'm not really afraid of it. The GPU doesn't work well with the downgraded firmware anyway. I don't think it even boots.
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Perfect. Thanks for the info. Mine would arrive next week. I'm shopping for video cards so this helps.
 
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Yeah. I actually wasn't intending on buying a new graphics card. I had a GTX 770 but it was so long and it couldn't fit in the first slot so it was running on PCIe 1.0 for awhile until I got the GTX 1060 Mini. I think the GTX 1070 Mini would fit also if you need the additional graphics performance. I didn't so I didn't see a need to spend more on the graphics card.
 
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zhoulander said:
Any ideas if a E5-16xx V2 chip will work in this board? ARK only lists the 26xx v1/v2 series, but wondering if 16xx chip will work fine in single processor configuration.
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Answering my own question: It works. Booted up with a E5-1650 V2 on BIOS R02.06.0005.
 
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I've read the thread but I'm getting mixed answers when it comes to using NVMe as a boot drive.

On latest/recent firmware, can I:

1. use a PCIe NVMe SSD as boot drive? example: Samsung MZVPV256HDGL

2. I've read some NVMe drives (example: plextor M6e(A) M.2 2280) can be booted on non-UEFI motherboards. Would these work?

Thanks a lot
 
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I have been trying to get this to work without success, I'm guessing it is probably some BIOS setting I am missing. First, I am not trying to make the NVMe device boot the system. I'd just like to be able to use the drive as a storage device.

The setup S2600CP2J board with 2xE5-2670v1, 128gb ram. Nothing else attached. Boots fine to EFI shell or from USB device.

Insert Samsung 950 EVO NVMe M2 device in a PCIe adapter Amazon.com: Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter (Support M.2 PCIe 2280, 2260, 2242): Computers & Accessories and the machine freezes during POST. The code it freezes at should be a Memory User Error (PMIE which detected User Recovery Condition). The weird thing is if I try to interrupt the bootup and go to setup, I can as long as it is before that step. From there it boots fine into EFI shell and I am able to see the NVMe device as a block device(which I was super surprised by).

Normally I'd figure this is something wacky with the device or the adapter, but when I put it into another system, it works flawlessly (E5-2670 based SunFire 4170-x3). And even when I put it into an older system which shouldn't support it at all it was still working as a block device albeit at reduces speeds since it was in a PCIe v2 slot (E5540 based SunFire 4170 system).

Anyway I thought I'd just ask to see if anyone else had a similar issue on this board or anything else. I'm going to toss a post over to the Intel forums as well. Sounds like a BIOS problem to me
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I'm ordering 2650 v2 *2, just curious would I be able to directly boot off a NVMe drive (960 evo probably)?
Thanks for all the comments on this thread! Helped a lot!
(Just installed 1080ti..thank god updated BIOS. now running newest BIOS from July 2017)
 
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Dominick Han said:
I'm ordering 2650 v2 *2, just curious would I be able to directly boot off a NVMe drive (960 evo probably)?
Thanks for all the comments on this thread! Helped a lot!
(Just installed 1080ti..thank god updated BIOS. now running newest BIOS from July 2017)
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Wow. I wasn't expecting a bios update for S2600 boards.
 
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Dominick Han said:
It was a small bug fix I think...now I can't sleep for some reason (before it would only go to S1 and resume normally), now it tries to go to S3 and never wakes up
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I never got the S2600 board to sleep/wake properly. Sometimes even Restart/Shutdown had issues.
 
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Great, long life thread. I have been able to get a Samsung 950 to boot but cant realy get around to getting it configured right in UEFI boot mode. Any suggestions?
 
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Great, long life thread. I have been able to get a Samsung 950 to boot but cant realy get around to getting it configured right in UEFI boot mode. Any suggestions?
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Been there, solved it
In short you have to use EFI shell to load the NVMe driver so you can use it as a boot device
Msg me on fb and I'll walk you through :) Dominick Han (Anyone who's trying to get NVMe to work can msg me :) )
 
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