UPDATE 2:
After setting a jumper on the pins noted by @bcredeur97 , then flashing the stock 1208 BIOS using Flashback, followed by AI-TweakerUnlock-NVMEOnly-Test.7z, I was able to get into a state where I am not getting the chassis intrusion error. I need to do more testing on this, but I believe disabling chassis intrusion in the BIOS will trigger this error regardless. I’ve had the most luck just setting the jumper on the AUX_PANEL connector where @bcredeur97 noted and leaving the chassis intrusion setting alone in the BIOS. AI Tweaker works, my NVMe drive works (already installed proxmox on it) and all my PCIe cards and VT-d / IOMMU work. I ordered a 64GB kit of 1866MHz ECC RAM for this without realizing that this board doesn’t support RDIMMs, but I filed for a return on those and ordered a 64GB kit of ECC UDIMM’s on EBay. Looking at the Orion manual, it seems this board does support unbuffered ECC DIMM’s as long as you are using a Xeon, and I’m using an E5-2680.
@Lost_N_BIOS thank you for all your hard work here, and I’ll post again when I get my new RAM.
Hi all - first time poster here. I have this board, and finally I have found people who share my pain! I am having a problem where I can’t, no matter what I do, get this board to boot. Everything seems to start up fine - it runs through the usual tests, and then it displays A0. Which I think means it’s successful? But I can’t seem to get graphics output so I can put Windows on.
I’m on the stock bios (1208) as far as I know - flashed through Flashback and seemed to take for all I know. I have stripped everything down to just a single drive connected to SATA and a single stick of RAM in A1. Although I’ve tried 2 sticks in B1 as well (saw that in a post). For lack of a manual, I’ve tried all jumper settings and positions, and currently have an AUX jumper in what I believe was mentioned to be what would enable a GPU. I’ve tried a 660ti, and an old single space quadro fx 3800.
Nothing seems to work and even though I get A0, I can’t seem to get it to show me an image. Do you all happen to have any ideas? @c4103 or @bcredeur97 or @Nuckyy ?
Thanks a ton for any tips. Gotta be something that will get me going.
@Lost_N_BIOS - some day I hope to try your mod! If I can get to step 1 and just get this working first, next would be OC and NVME support
Found the manual (for the orion server that used this board) and it has a VGA header that I never noticed. I’ve ordered a port + bracket, will see if that gets me a visual and lets me get anywhere with it.
attaching in case anyone else comes across issues that might be helped by a look at the manual. This is one of the only threads out there in internet land about this board.
ASUS 9x79wsIPMI manual.pdf (5.67 MB)
@Jables I too have the IPMI board and ended up buying the VGA bracket, as I’m passing through my GPU in the server to a Windows VM. It works fine with the jumper set to enable it. You can also try disabling the VGA jumper and booting the system with a GPU in it. Another idea might be to plug in the IPMI port to your local network, get it to boot to A0 and try and access the system with IPMI. Your router’s DHCP table should identify the IP it’s broadcasting on. If you try it, I’d recommend using a Windows PC and an old version of Internet Explorer as it’s an old Java app that has issues with newer browsers.
Thanks @c4103 - I hadn’t thought of the IPMI! It’s on there, might as well. By “VGA Jumper” do you mean jumping the 2 pins (3-4 along the bottom) of the AUX_PANEL? Is there a pinout of that anywhere? Didn’t see anything in the manual. I saw the jumper of the AUX PANEL pictured in the other post, but it didn’t help my situation. But I also noticed that I wasn’t using the right dimm slot for a single stick and some other things - I hope to get back into it and try again asap, but got frustrated and pulled it for another x79 board I had ready to go. I still have another spare parts machine that will make use of this IPMI mobo, so I’ll be back in on it soon. Any jumper info that worked for you, I’ll take it! The VGA bracket should be here in a week.
@Jables My server is racked right now, but if you have the Orion HF-210 manual, take a look at jumper 25 in the motherboard overview section, "VGA controller setting (3-pinDIAG_VIEW)3-pin DIAG_VIEW) DIAG_VIEW)." This enables or disables "diagnostic view" which refers to the VGA output. Jumper 23 enables / disables the IPMI functionality, referred to as BMC in the manual.
@Lost_N_BIOS sorry that I am late for this thread, all the tinyupload links are not working for me, and just wondering if possible to share the files in #117 and #125 again? I recently acquired same board and run into the same issue. Many thanks.
Lost as been away since January, his private links r not recoverable.
Address it to another (@user) that may share with u.
@MeatWar many thanks for your information.
@bcredeur97 is it possible for you to share the BIOS file if you still have them somewhere? thanks.
@Jables @c4103 or @bcredeur97 @Nuckyy @MMFC378 @Nuckyy @Bill1024 @HaroldtheWeird @hENNNi @BeefSupreme
Not sure if any of you still hold a copy of the working mod of the BIOS file, and can kindly share it again, many thanks.
I’m in the same boat. I dont mean to add non constructive posts but theres a decent demand for these solutions. I particularly am frustrated with the weird lock on chassis intrusion. If anyone has the fixed bioses mentioned here, please let us know. The jumper on the aux pins doesn’t work for me unfortunately.