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

[shoota]

What Sparky said.
Make sure you are following the instructions from the first page to the 't'. These boards are very picky.

[NKrader]

How long you letting it run? It takes a while to POST, like a good 30 sec.

Also, all 4 RAM slots for CPU0 should be populated first, then the 4 for CPU1, etc. Memory should be ECC registered DDR2. PC2-3200 is what I used.

I never got any of the SATA ports near the bottom of the board to function - probably driver thing. The upper 2 work fine.

and yeah i know they take a while my sammy prob takes a full 60seconds to post. i let it sit there for like 15min and still nothing. tried it with and without drives/usb drive, tried with 2 videocards, moved the ram around, removed some. still no go.

did all of that except ram, i did one stick in each of the blue slots. all the parts are correct, as they came from shoota or were the same exact thing he had before.

and as for setup, what is there to mess up? put it together, plug drive to sata 20.

it starts i get post lights etc, and everything gets warm/hot but no video.

What kind of video cards?

a brand new HD5450
and shoota's used pci thing, that im guessing he used in this board before. nither show any video.

What Sparky said.
Make sure you are following the instructions from the first page to the 't'. These boards are very picky.

again what is differant really about this build that building any other computers, other than the obvious 4p, etc..

[Sparky]

Ah that's a problem. Don't go by slot color, it is misleading. Fill ALL of CPU0 memory slots first (two blue, two black). Then, move on to CPU1 memory slots. If you put 2 per CPU bank, it won't work. Been there, done that.

[shoota]

populate all four dimms for cpu0 and nothing else.

[NKrader]

it won't work. Been there, done that.

silly enterprise mobos.

somone should put this in post #1 here. as this would be part of everyones setup.

thanks guys lets see how it goes tonight when or if I ever get off work.. today sucks and its only 10:45am... only 6 hours and some change to go..

[shoota]

it's 2pm here

[NKrader]

it's 2pm here

yeah yeah yeah... tell me time traveler, what are the lottery numbers.

[shoota]

If I told you we'd have to split it..

[retro77]

If I told you we'd have to split it..

and you guys would have to use it build crunchers

[NKrader]

still wont do anything.

filled just cpu0, filled cpu0+cpu1, put 2 sticks in each, filled cpu0 cpu1 and 2 sticks in 3and4.. still no go.


i love my luck with computers, i dont think ive ever had a new computer build working in the same week that it arrived.. allah must hate me or somthing..

[retro77]

The battery might be dead.

[NKrader]

The battery might be dead.

but it was just working like an hour before he pulled it and shipped.. :'(




so ive found the oem style psu plugs

16/18 pin in clear/white

anyone interested? 2$ for each one is what i was quoted. so it may be slight more after shipping but. still cheap. im glad i found em ive had arima for like 4 days and im already tired of all the adapter cables and such.

[retro77]

Would this allow me to plug in the power connectors with out turning some backwards?

[shoota]

Make sure each ram slot in the center of the board is populated.

[NKrader]

Make sure each ram slot in the center of the board is populated.

yes i got that part

its booting now, now i cant get it to boot orinstall from usb, it fails halfway thru talking about "root=" somthing. ive tried remaking the usb stick a few times now.. bleh.


but 4 days down now it boots i think im good for the night. LOL

Would this allow me to plug in the power connectors with out turning some backwards?

they would go into the plugs like the original psu google had would.

[retro77]

Use an optical drive to install the OS.

Would you then need replace those plugs with plugs on your PS. Pretty cool

[Sparky]

Yeah I had NO luck booting from USB. I used a random SATA DVD-ROM drive I had lying around - I didn't know they made DVD-ROMs in SATA (yeah, reader only, doesn't even burn CDs ).

[shoota]

I would use an optical drive too. Much easier

[NKrader]

lol luckally i got a cdrom recently. i didnt have any for like 2 years. had to barrow one to install xp on sammy.



burning now



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there is no ide on this mobo.. wtf.

well im down until i can find sata cdrom

[shoota]

You could always try installing linux to the hdd using a different computer..

[Jacka]

My boards boot from USB fine

[D_A]

Some boards you have to plug in the USB stick into a powered up machine, then reboot and enter the BIOS so you can select the USB stick as the primary HDD before it will boot from it.

[NKrader]

it does the same thing with all the computers I try it on.. same error from cd version tried mutli harddrives on multi systems, remade the usb one 3x... wth ubuntu.. i need a linux that works please..

[D_A]

Did you confirm the checksum on the download you're using? It might have been corrupt.

[NKrader]

im on the quad arima right now whooooooo