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

[AmiJIm]

Cannot enter the bios,cannot enable the second usb header.
Crunching real fast!

[retro77]

Nice work! Just gotta crank it up to 100% now!!!

[AmiJIm]

Hi there,
has anyone managed to install windows 2008 server r2 or any other windows OS?
thank you.

[Sparky]

I gave up. But I really want to get Windows on it. Yes, I know, that's not very nerdy of me, and it is more nerdy to have linux on it, but I'm worthless with linux and I can't wrap my head around it.

[shoota]

Cannot enter the bios,cannot enable the second usb header.
Crunching real fast!

Ami, did you get it crunching at 100% yet?

[PoppaGeek]

Cannot enter the bios,cannot enable the second usb header.
Crunching real fast!

The System Monitor runs at a higher priority than WCG WUs. That is why you see the crazy looking CPU usuage. Open a terminal window and type top

Accessories > Terminal

[retro77]

I can't get mine to boot. Here is what I have:
RAM in all slots
All four CPUs populated
SATA DVD on SATA20
SATA HD on random SATA port
Tried a HIS Radeon 9250 [AGP]
Tried a Galaxy 9500GT [PCIe]
LED1 and 2 are off
LED 3 is green
LED 4 is amber

Any ideas? Just order an x550 video card?

[Sparky]

I think I have one if you want one. Cost of shipping only and some patience for me to mail it since the PO is usually closed by the time I get off work, so Saturdays are really my only chance to ship stuff via USPS. Or I can ship fedex during the week but for a small vid card that costs more.

[retro77]

I think I have one if you want one. Cost of shipping only and some patience for me to mail it since the PO is usually closed by the time I get off work, so Saturdays are really my only chance to ship stuff via USPS. Or I can ship fedex during the week but for a small vid card that costs more.

Thanks for the offer. I just eBayed up an X550 for about $7. Hope it works. If not, I'll keep your offer in mind. Thank you.

[shoota]

i haven't seen a non-pci nvidia card work yet, not saying it's impossible but that x550 should work. Either way we'll be here to help you

[retro77]

i haven't seen a non-pci nvidia card work yet, not saying it's impossible but that x550 should work. Either way we'll be here to help you

Awesome, thanks. I'll keep everyone updated.

[AmiJIm]

As i have told before,
i have used successfully the below cards.
PCIe
Ati x700,hd1650
Nvidia 9800GT
PCI
ati 7500
nvidia rica tnt 16mb.
My board has bios dated from 11/26/2007 , version 0.9.6.ec
Name ARGo -AR11
could you tell us what your mobo is running on so we could figure out the most recent bios?
I could grab a bios image for others to use.
please contribute.

[retro77]

Once I get video, I'll get that BIOS revision. Unless its on a label that I'm not seeing this morning. I had your list when I went shopping last night for a video card actually! LOL. I saw a 9800GT but it was $125 and I thought that was too much for a server. Plus I don't want any more power requirements than a bare minimum. Do you have a link for the most recent BIOS update? That way I can make sure I update right away. Hopefully have the most stable BIOS available.

Thanks again, team!

[Sparky]

How would you grab a bios image let alone flash the bios on this board? I mean, if we could figure out how to flash it, I'm sure somebody could add full ACPI support to it. Someone did to another Arima board a while back (saw it on another forum).

[shoota]

Oh man full acpi support would be so awesome

[karbonkid]

I'm pretty sure flashrom should be able to grab and flash images on this board...

[shoota]

anyone got some extra ram for these boards they don't need/want?

[AmiJIm]

Flashrom will get the job done.Also i have found some forumers in mydigitallife community.
But our primal task is to figure out if there is a newer bios than the one is in my board.
please uses sysinfo or get into the bios to see the revision and report back.

[terramir]

got a question about this, can someone pm me or post the exact hardware it has on board (ethernet, sound etc) also wanted to ask is the ppd listed there for 1 cpu? or for a board with 4 cpu's?
terramir

[shoota]

Flashrom will get the job done.Also i have found some forumers in mydigitallife community.
But our primal task is to figure out if there is a newer bios than the one is in my board.
please uses sysinfo or get into the bios to see the revision and report back.

here's my bios info:
BIOS VERSION: Argo 1.0.4-EC x64
Build Date: 03/03/2008
Core Version: 4:6.1

got a question about this, can someone pm me or post the exact hardware it has on board (ethernet, sound etc) also wanted to ask is the ppd listed there for 1 cpu? or for a board with 4 cpu's?
terramir

SCSI Storage controller: Marvell 88SX7042
Ethernet: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754
nVidia MCP55
I don't know if this board has a sound card.. Linux didn't pick one up anyways.

My board with four 8347's averages in the 30,000's WCG points per day.

[retro77]

It has four NICs, no sound, no video. I can list the full amount of ports once I get home. It only has a PCIe x16 and an AGP slot.

[shoota]

It has four NICs, no sound, no video. I can list the full amount of ports once I get home. It only has a PCIe x16 and an AGP slot.

Jinx

[terramir]

My board with four 8347's averages in the 30,000's WCG points per day.

So hmmm your telling me that 4 of these processors compare to one i7
And you can't push the fsb on this board to oc
well I wonder if using the HE processors you could at least match a 980x at stock speed :S well it is definitely a cheaper alternative but I dunno.
I wish there was a lga 1366 quad processor board (oc'able would be a bonus) max I can get from intel right now is a sp2 board, but that board is only dual socket
terramir

[shoota]

The advantage of this platform is the startup cost is lower than i7

[Sparky]

The advantage of this platform is the startup cost is lower than i7

And it is also a little more nerdy