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As Windows 10 release is getting closer I thought I would try and see how it on my systems here but having issues.

System is a Supermicro X10DAX motherboard, 2x E5-2699 V3's and 256GB DDR4.

BIOS is set to UEFI DVD and booting from Win 10 Preview disk.
I cannot seem to get past this screen.
Windows 10 Enterprise Preview will try and boot but just goes away.

Has anyone here tried this ?

 
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is TPM enabled on your server?
I have been running win10 on my desktop since about a week after it was initially available.
 
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Patriot said:
is TPM enabled on your server?
I have been running win10 on my desktop since about a week after it was initially available.
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Is running running a beta OS on something that you are going to use every day such a smart idea? There is a larger chance of windows 10 ****ing up so badly that you are not able to use your computer for 1 or 2 days.
 
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Well this is a workstation.
The rig your running on is a single socket board ?

I will check TPM in BIOS.

Thanks
 
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legopc said:
Is running running a beta OS on something that you are going to use every day such a smart idea? There is a larger chance of windows 10 ****ing up so badly that you are not able to use your computer for 1 or 2 days.
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Over windows 8? Not likely. Biggest issue was it got stuck and couldn't upgrade to a newer build for a long time. Kept rolling back. Must have tried 30 times before a newer build came out and it upgraded to it just fine.

It is just software... worst case scenario is a 5min OS install. Hardware failure might take me down for a few hours.
 
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At the moment I do not have a spare psu...actually oversubscribed... borrowed the the 1200w hcp from harbringer for my 2nd "temporary" workstation.

That said, windows 10 has legitimately been more stable than windows 8 has for me.
 
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Interesting...

What I had to do to get this working.

You want to disable onboard LAN. In the case of the X10DAX the only way was to flip the jumpers on the motherboard to disable the two LAN ports.

After that the system would not boot.

I then installed a generic NIC card and bingo I can now get to actually installing Win 10.
I think now what I have to do is finish the install on a HDD or SSD and manually install the correct NIC drivers, then enable them on the MB.

Trying that next.
 
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Well that is not going to work it seems.

It seems the only way we are going to get Win 10 on a Dual CPU systems is to use Win Server 10 which is sad.
I haven't tried that yet but will soon.
 
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You may be right and it could just be this board and needs a BIOS update. I have emailed SM to see what they have to say.

I did get 10 running many months ago and I think it was on an ASUS board, I can't remember. But the X10DAX which is a workstation class board will simply not run it. I do have the latest Win 10 download so I am not sure what's up.
 
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I have Windows 10 Tech Enterprise Preview also... it simply goes away during the boot up process, at least at first attempts.
Might try that later.
 
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Success !

Same system I have been testing... SM X10DAX, 2x E5-2699 V3, 128GB, Intel P3700 400GB PCIe SSD

All I did was turn off HT, everything enabled.

Win 10 Preview is installing. I will see how it all finishes up and if I can turn back on HT.

It seems the installer does not like all the cores/threads.
 
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FWIW - I've been running into this exact problem with a SM board w.latest BIOS too but Win8.1 Pro, and a Inel CPU w/out HT. (Although, I guess, the SM board may still say HT "ON" and may require a turn off.)

I figured it was a windows thing, but now that you have the same thing practically I'll e-mail SM and get their BIOS engineers to examine both our data sets and hopefully they can fix it :)

I did get it eventually installed... but how, notes are at home :/
 
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Interesting... On SM boards and ASUS Dual CPU workstation boards I have not had issues with Win 8.1.
My main rig is a ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS with 2x E5-2698 V3's and did nothing special to install Win 8.1

Well hopefully all these issues get sorted out when RTM gets released, who knows it could also require BIOS updates on some boards :(
 
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Yeah, I didn't have to change much it wasn't something magical... I just can't recall what it was right now :( LOL.

But it did bug me to see those errors (the ones you posted images of) over and over until I made 1 change and it installed, and away I
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Well I shall see how it goes.

The plan is to do a full update then see if I can turn back on HT.
Running off of the P3700 is pretty zippy, but I do not have any of my apps installed. I don't plan on that tho for this test.
 
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It did not like having HT turned back on, this was a fully updated system.
I don't have the latest build for Win 10 tho., this was 10130 and they don't have the latest build on insider for download yet... hmm..
 
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