I purchased some SC826 servers from the ebay with the intention to ditch the motherboards they came with and install a couple of recently acquired X11SPH-nCTPF boards. One of the servers showed up with an E5-2690 in a X9-DRi-LN4F+, so I thought I might put it to use.
In researching I came across a couple of issues/questions:
1) These boards are marked X9-DRi-LN4F+, Rev. 1.00. Despite Supermicro's website saying these support E5-2600v2 processors with Bios version 3.0 or above, some googling suggests these (Rev 1.00 boards) do not support v2 processors. I don't have any E5-2600v2 series around to test with. Other pages suggest they can support v2 processors with some components "reworked". Does anyone know how I can tell or what "reworking" is involved?
2) The Bios identifies this board as a "Supermicro X9DR7/E-(J)LN4F" and presents various options referencing a LSI 2308 that clearly doesn't exist on the board. Is this normal behavior for this board or has someone installed the wrong Bios/firmware?
Thanks for the help!
In researching I came across a couple of issues/questions:
1) These boards are marked X9-DRi-LN4F+, Rev. 1.00. Despite Supermicro's website saying these support E5-2600v2 processors with Bios version 3.0 or above, some googling suggests these (Rev 1.00 boards) do not support v2 processors. I don't have any E5-2600v2 series around to test with. Other pages suggest they can support v2 processors with some components "reworked". Does anyone know how I can tell or what "reworking" is involved?
2) The Bios identifies this board as a "Supermicro X9DR7/E-(J)LN4F" and presents various options referencing a LSI 2308 that clearly doesn't exist on the board. Is this normal behavior for this board or has someone installed the wrong Bios/firmware?
Thanks for the help!