I have decided to Register myself here, and post my issue, since i am strugling with it for a couple of days, and i cant seem to pinpoint to culprit.
I decided to Change my Desktop pc, from a AsRock EP2c612 WS with dual E5-2690 v3 Xeons (two 12 core CPUs), to a single AMD EPYC 32 core CPU, while using as Motherboard the Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 Motherboard.
The link for the Motherboard description page is here:
MZ31-AR0 (rev. 1.0) | Server Motherboard - GIGABYTE B2B Service
Together with this Motherboard and CPU, i have two RADEON VEGA Frontier Edition, watercooled, 4x16 gb Samsung Memory stick 2133 mhz, and the following PCI Express expansions Slots
1)Aquacomputer PCI Express to M.2 Card, where a 512gb Samsung 950 pro is installed
2)256 gb Samsunng 960 EVO installed in the Motherboards M.2 Slot, both drives NVME and PCI express 3.0 4x
3)A Sonnet USB 3.0 Card, with fresco Chips, each of the 4 usb ports tied to a single PCI express 1x, the Card itself is PCI expres 2.0 4x
4)A Gigabyte WB867D-I WLAN + Bluetooth 4.0 Adapter PCIe 802.11ac PCIe x1
Also connected are 2 ASUS ROG Horus Keyboards and Roccat Nyth mouse, 2 of each.
Also on usb 2.0 port on the Motherboard through a series of links are Hubby aquacomputer hubs connected to the Motherboard 4 pieces.
For the purpose of trying to boot succesfully, i only connected one mouse and one Keyboard, and only one Monitor to the first Video Card.
The Problem i am having, is the wheter im trying to boot from an USB Installation stick of Windows 10, or trying to boot in the installed Windows (from the stick), i get "Whea Internal Error.
Sometimes i manage to boot from the stick and install the Windows on the 256gb ssd, and i enter Windows, but after installing Video Drivers and restarting, i get in a Loop of "WHEA INTERNAL ERROR" which never Ends, and i cannot enter Windows ever again.
I tried asking GIgabyte for an asnwer to the Problem, but i have no ideea why it wont work
Bios Settings i have tried:
1)Setting the bios to LEgacy instead of uefi, doesnt allow me to receive an Image at all, i had to take out the battery (probably Image was outputted on the onboard Video Card) - so im not keen on trying this again
2)enable/Disable USB Setting (Legacy, XHCI shake off, etc) doesnt help, sometimes it boots, sometimes it doesnt
3)4G Decoding enabled or disabled, nothing.
4)Setting the onboard videocard to "external" probably disables the internal Video Card, but if and when i do get in Windows, the internal Video chip is still shown in devices.
My further ideeas i Need to try.
1)Removing the usb 2.0 connector from the momotherboard and trying without it
2)Trying without the pci express usb Card
3)Trying only with the videocards inserted in the pci express Slots.
4)Trying to install Windows Server 2016, since on Support drive Downloads page, there is no "Windows 10" as supported Operation System.
5)Trying to install the regular Adrenalin Driver or the proffesional Driver for the Video Cards once Windows does start, instead of the blockchain Driver, but i dont see how that will help with the issue,.... i dont see how the MAD blockchain Driver could cause such Errors.
Seeing as this Website is where People with Server board knowledge gather, i tried to post my Problem here, perhaps i can gets some hints and ideeas on what i might be doing wrong. I really do like to Keep my brand spanking new 32 core cpu, and to ge with it, there is no other Motherboard except for this Gigabyte model.
I will probably also try installing Windows Server 2016 from a CD, but i still Need to receive the SLIM SAS to SATA cable, since the Motherboard doesnt have normal sata connector.
I have never had so big Problems trying to make a System work in my life, and i have been trough a lot of Computer manipulating stuff in my life.
I decided to Change my Desktop pc, from a AsRock EP2c612 WS with dual E5-2690 v3 Xeons (two 12 core CPUs), to a single AMD EPYC 32 core CPU, while using as Motherboard the Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 Motherboard.
The link for the Motherboard description page is here:
MZ31-AR0 (rev. 1.0) | Server Motherboard - GIGABYTE B2B Service
Together with this Motherboard and CPU, i have two RADEON VEGA Frontier Edition, watercooled, 4x16 gb Samsung Memory stick 2133 mhz, and the following PCI Express expansions Slots
1)Aquacomputer PCI Express to M.2 Card, where a 512gb Samsung 950 pro is installed
2)256 gb Samsunng 960 EVO installed in the Motherboards M.2 Slot, both drives NVME and PCI express 3.0 4x
3)A Sonnet USB 3.0 Card, with fresco Chips, each of the 4 usb ports tied to a single PCI express 1x, the Card itself is PCI expres 2.0 4x
4)A Gigabyte WB867D-I WLAN + Bluetooth 4.0 Adapter PCIe 802.11ac PCIe x1
Also connected are 2 ASUS ROG Horus Keyboards and Roccat Nyth mouse, 2 of each.
Also on usb 2.0 port on the Motherboard through a series of links are Hubby aquacomputer hubs connected to the Motherboard 4 pieces.
For the purpose of trying to boot succesfully, i only connected one mouse and one Keyboard, and only one Monitor to the first Video Card.
The Problem i am having, is the wheter im trying to boot from an USB Installation stick of Windows 10, or trying to boot in the installed Windows (from the stick), i get "Whea Internal Error.
Sometimes i manage to boot from the stick and install the Windows on the 256gb ssd, and i enter Windows, but after installing Video Drivers and restarting, i get in a Loop of "WHEA INTERNAL ERROR" which never Ends, and i cannot enter Windows ever again.
I tried asking GIgabyte for an asnwer to the Problem, but i have no ideea why it wont work
Bios Settings i have tried:
1)Setting the bios to LEgacy instead of uefi, doesnt allow me to receive an Image at all, i had to take out the battery (probably Image was outputted on the onboard Video Card) - so im not keen on trying this again
2)enable/Disable USB Setting (Legacy, XHCI shake off, etc) doesnt help, sometimes it boots, sometimes it doesnt
3)4G Decoding enabled or disabled, nothing.
4)Setting the onboard videocard to "external" probably disables the internal Video Card, but if and when i do get in Windows, the internal Video chip is still shown in devices.
My further ideeas i Need to try.
1)Removing the usb 2.0 connector from the momotherboard and trying without it
2)Trying without the pci express usb Card
3)Trying only with the videocards inserted in the pci express Slots.
4)Trying to install Windows Server 2016, since on Support drive Downloads page, there is no "Windows 10" as supported Operation System.
5)Trying to install the regular Adrenalin Driver or the proffesional Driver for the Video Cards once Windows does start, instead of the blockchain Driver, but i dont see how that will help with the issue,.... i dont see how the MAD blockchain Driver could cause such Errors.
Seeing as this Website is where People with Server board knowledge gather, i tried to post my Problem here, perhaps i can gets some hints and ideeas on what i might be doing wrong. I really do like to Keep my brand spanking new 32 core cpu, and to ge with it, there is no other Motherboard except for this Gigabyte model.
I will probably also try installing Windows Server 2016 from a CD, but i still Need to receive the SLIM SAS to SATA cable, since the Motherboard doesnt have normal sata connector.
I have never had so big Problems trying to make a System work in my life, and i have been trough a lot of Computer manipulating stuff in my life.