How to: Arima AMD Opteron Quad Core Socket F 3000 series

[Kryja]

If a hd 4650 doesn't work I doubt a dx11 card will. Heres hoping

[Kryja]

Oh Anarki - what are the led lights at the back of your board doing? And what gpu are you using?

[rintamarotta]

Well, tested with Ares and it indeed sucks as how gaming goes at least in most of games since they dont take advantage of 16 cores, my thuban indeed does destroy these opterons when it comes to gaming think thats due higer clocks, so ill just first focus doing my server and gaming pc winter cooling project to end and then setup this arima proper way to wcg crunching, not shure tough should i put gtx480 there if i want do GPUGrid with it same time, i got 4 of those cards and 3 goes for my main gaming and work pc.

Edit : btw i used Corsair AX1200 psu's for this

[MrMojoZ]

Oh Anarki - what are the led lights at the back of your board doing? And what gpu are you using?

I see a red flash before a successful post.

[Anarki]

I'm using an ATi X550.

When I power up the motherboard the NIC lights blink for a second along with the two LED's on the board.

I'll make a video of it in a minute.

EDIT:Youtube vid

[Kryja]

Cheers for that Anarki

Mine just sits like this with or without a gpu.



I'll pull the cpu's out tomorrow and have another try at switching things around. Not sure what else to do

[werdwerdus]

Cheers for that Anarki

Mine just sits like this with or without a gpu.



I'll pull the cpu's out tomorrow and have another try at switching things around. Not sure what else to do

same thing with mine. whatever i tried, pci ati rage xl vga card, pci-e 6600gt, no gpu, just sat with those leds on and never posted. i just gave up.

[Kryja]

Bummer

Safe to say my board is dead then? I take it you sent it back and got another one?

[Kryja]

This board is definatly a no go. Just tried running one cpu at a time - with no gpu - and it still sits there with those two leds on
Contacting whats-his-face through ebay is the next step me thinks

[shoota]

those two led's are always on on mine tho

werd did you ever contact the seller?

[Anarki]

Well my board doesn't even have those LED's marked LED3 and LED4. They aren't soldered onto the motherboard!



Plus the BIOS battery holder is extremely loose.

I may also send mine back for a relacement as no matter what I try it will not go into the BIOS

EDIT: pic added

[MrMojoZ]

My board did the same thing as yours until I put in a good video card, not sure you can call it bad till you boot it with a 100% for sure supported video card.

[Kryja]

I'll try the vid card route then. Be alot cheaper than sending it back. A tenner for a x550 - good deal?

[Kryja]

Just found this;

Hi there,
this board is extreamly picky on devices.Please post monitor images with vga signal and tell us what vgas have you used successfully.
I have unsuccessfully used
ati 7500 pci
permedia 2 pci
riva128 pci
riva tnt pci
matrox g450 pci
matrox parhelia pci
ati x300 pci-e
nvidia 7600gt pci-e

I have seen successfull post with
ati x700 pci-e
nvidia 8800
nvidia 9800

[rintamarotta]

Well i used Ares HD5870x2 so it should be working on this board, but doubt many people have ares card's.

I dont have those 2 led's eather, its just like anarki's board but without that OBEY bios screen and it does boot to windows.

[Anarki]

I'll try the vid card route then. Be alot cheaper than sending it back. A tenner for a x550 - good deal?

Thats the exact one I brought from the exact same seller. He ships them out instantly

[retro77]

Thats the exact one I brought from the exact same seller. He ships them out instantly

Is that card working for you?

[Anarki]

Is that card working for you?

Yes it works perfectly

Just got to figure out whats going on with my BIOS...

[Sparky]

Another for the X550 working in this board. That's what is in mine.

[Sparky]

Dude a BIOS with ACPI support to be able to run windows? That would be awesome.

Um, don't know how I'd flash this thing though...

[shoota]

Well i used Ares HD5870x2 so it should be working on this board, but doubt many people have ares card's.

I dont have those 2 led's eather, its just like anarki's board but without that OBEY bios screen and it does boot to windows.

wanna trade?

Dude a BIOS with ACPI support to be able to run windows? That would be awesome.

Um, don't know how I'd flash this thing though...

i'd be scared anyway, these boards seem very tempermental.

[rintamarotta]

Well i need wait few days before i can run that board again, cpu's are crunching on 2 dual-socket machines at the moment.

Ill try later to dump the bios to usb stick, if this thing is able to even boot from usb sticks.

And yeah, windows is able to run in this board you need just drivers, i also had minor problem what i got trought doring windows installation, it said "not enought diskspace" but i had more than 140gb of free space

wanna trade?

Think thats, negative.

Edit : Hmm.. what does HP do with arima boards??? Because i found out that this one is branded or customised, what ever you call it for HP.

[retro77]

Mind sharing the locations of the Windows drivers you found?

[Kryja]

Certainly sounds like you've got a special board there rintamarotta.

I bought that card - hopefully that'll solve it.

[rintamarotta]

Mind sharing the locations of the Windows drivers you found?

I didnt find the drivers yet, i just installed with different harddrive (no idea what was the cause of first one failing there), still i need few more drivers for this board to be able to take full advantage of arima in windows.

Certainly sounds like you've got a special board there rintamarotta.

I bought that card - hopefully that'll solve it.

Think so, most other peoples seem to have OBEY customized boards.
Im going to also test Radeon X500 later on when i take WCG opterons down from server room to test more this board and hopefully im able to dumb the bios for you people to test but are you willing to take the risk of using my boards bios on your's since its customized differently.