I bought the unit from CWWK via Amazon for the cheapest price I'd seen - $338 and I've had it in hand for a few days. I ran through the (confusing) BIOS settings and settled on what I thought were reasonable settings. Had to turn on SR-IOV, set the 3 different power recovery options to the same value, change IOMMU and DMAr from auto to enabled so I know they'll definitely be on...
I then installed Proxmox PVE 8.0.2 on SATA zfs mirrors (MX500 256GB) and validated a network port. I added in an m.2 SSD on the H-board adapter to validate the x4 connectivity (it's there!). Next step was memtest86 and that went smoothly.
Through all this I found that things were resetting the BIOS to defaults ettings that I wouldn't have expected. Add the m.2 - reset, remove it - reset, At one point it reset from just removing a USB flash drive, tho I doubt that's really what did it. Download links for the BIOS didn't work so I contacted CWWK, 3rd method's the charm - cwwk.net chat. They provided a link to a different site to get the BIOS.
The new BIOS installed clean and doesn't look any different. However, booting to PVE crashed and reset the BIOS the first time. Second time PVE boot fine and then hung while I tried to login to the console. 3rd boot I went straight to memtest86 and I'm waiting on a complete 1st pass.
Anyone have recommended BIOS settings for this box? Suggestions of what else to poke at?
edit: Oh look at that... they shipped me the 5825U.
I then installed Proxmox PVE 8.0.2 on SATA zfs mirrors (MX500 256GB) and validated a network port. I added in an m.2 SSD on the H-board adapter to validate the x4 connectivity (it's there!). Next step was memtest86 and that went smoothly.
Through all this I found that things were resetting the BIOS to defaults ettings that I wouldn't have expected. Add the m.2 - reset, remove it - reset, At one point it reset from just removing a USB flash drive, tho I doubt that's really what did it. Download links for the BIOS didn't work so I contacted CWWK, 3rd method's the charm - cwwk.net chat. They provided a link to a different site to get the BIOS.
The new BIOS installed clean and doesn't look any different. However, booting to PVE crashed and reset the BIOS the first time. Second time PVE boot fine and then hung while I tried to login to the console. 3rd boot I went straight to memtest86 and I'm waiting on a complete 1st pass.
Anyone have recommended BIOS settings for this box? Suggestions of what else to poke at?
edit: Oh look at that... they shipped me the 5825U.
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