Hello,
i have a DQ45CB and i've plugged in it a HP SA P400 PCIe SAS RAID card, and my surprise comes that the board does not initialize the card at all, it isn't even selectable in the BIOS boot order.
So i tested with a HP SA E200, same. A LSI 3442, same. A HP NC110T GB NIC, same.
i've flashed to the latest bios(0073) and the problem remains(of course the cards have all the latest FW).
in another old board, a Intel D945GCCR, they init succesfully(show their banners, setup key-press, etc), can be selected for boot, everything.
Speaking with intel chat is like talking to a wall, but dumb, all i get is crap about pcie2.0 not being compatible with 1.0 and those cards not being GPUs and all kinds of useless stuff...
(for the record, i have plenty experience in server/system building and troubleshooting, is what i do for a living after all)
The problem is the BIOS of the board not initializing the expantion card firmware(no banner showing, nothing) and i also suspect that horrid Intel Management Engine BIOS has something to do with it(and there's no way to disable it)
Now, does ANYONE has a way to contact some validation/BIOS engineer at Intel?, it seems the normal method of contacting support does not work anymore as one is treated like a joe janitor with no knowledge of anything.
AAAND as usual, the problem is quite urgent as i have to deliver these "mini server" systems quite soon...
Thanks for whomever can extend a helping hand
i have a DQ45CB and i've plugged in it a HP SA P400 PCIe SAS RAID card, and my surprise comes that the board does not initialize the card at all, it isn't even selectable in the BIOS boot order.
So i tested with a HP SA E200, same. A LSI 3442, same. A HP NC110T GB NIC, same.
i've flashed to the latest bios(0073) and the problem remains(of course the cards have all the latest FW).
in another old board, a Intel D945GCCR, they init succesfully(show their banners, setup key-press, etc), can be selected for boot, everything.
Speaking with intel chat is like talking to a wall, but dumb, all i get is crap about pcie2.0 not being compatible with 1.0 and those cards not being GPUs and all kinds of useless stuff...
(for the record, i have plenty experience in server/system building and troubleshooting, is what i do for a living after all)
The problem is the BIOS of the board not initializing the expantion card firmware(no banner showing, nothing) and i also suspect that horrid Intel Management Engine BIOS has something to do with it(and there's no way to disable it)
Now, does ANYONE has a way to contact some validation/BIOS engineer at Intel?, it seems the normal method of contacting support does not work anymore as one is treated like a joe janitor with no knowledge of anything.
AAAND as usual, the problem is quite urgent as i have to deliver these "mini server" systems quite soon...
Thanks for whomever can extend a helping hand
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