Zitat von SkOrPn im Beitrag #420

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@FrankBooth,

Just an FYI. That suggested Xeon X5680 will give you an even bigger performance boost, one that will surprise you. Had it been built on the same 45nm node as your 930 you probably wouldn't even notice the hexa core xeon, however since it is built on 32nm it is actually a decent IPC upgrade and WILL BE NOTICED. Make sure you do that upgrade to really experience how far a head Intel was with the x58 platform.

If you haven't already jumped on the Ryzen bandwagon I would wait until at least this summer for Zen 2 as it "might" be a true revolutionary product with a clear win over Intel at EVERYTHING. Lol

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Zitat von FrankBooth im Beitrag #421

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[quote=SkOrPn|p70239]@FrankBooth,
I do like the pricing for Navi from AMD too, it at least puts some real pressure on Nvidia.

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Hi,

I didn't see an issue like the one I get in the thread so here is what I have done :
- my system : a x58 chipset, gigabyte x58a_ud3r with hdds and one evo 970 on a pci-e adapatator card plugged in a pci-e 16x connector
- I've clonned my actual hdd system disk to the ssd
- I've used duet/refind installer without any issue

When I boot from the usb key i got a black screen with some king of orange/red music notes on the left, cursor blinking on the 2nd line and in the middle of the screen some orange/red
text saying something I don"t remember at this moment but actually not a warning message or a failed one and nothing more.

Do you have any idea why this is happening ?

Can you please take some video of your boot up on the USB key? Simple video from a smartphone and upload it to YouTube and give us the link please.

Pretty sure you don't have proper bootmgfw.efi or bootx64.efi files.

In short : I'm guessing you cloned MBR style drive, and try to boot it on GPT style drive.

Easy way : You need to reinstall Windows in UEFI mode (and GPT partition style).

Hard way : There is a chance it MIGHT work, if you manually create EFI partion (~200MB), set it as "active", and copy files from hidden EFI partition of proper Windows GPT installation.
I do not know if any tweaks on system files will be needed though.
Oh, and you don't need to hide EFI partition on your drive (it should work regardless).

PS. I assume Duet seeks EFI boot files similary to Clover (or in similar places).

I assume your answer was directed to me...

So I ran the boot process again and the sentence I get is :
Entering DXE - Duet udk2017

and the music note at the end.

I tried converting the MBR to GPT but diskpart gave me "unable to convert this kind of disk (like CDs)" So I'll try installing a new windows on it in UEFI mode.

Hey guys, what am I doing wrong trying to use NVMe with PCI-E -adapter with my Asus Sabertooth X58?
I followed the instructions for "Booting the NVME drive from non-UEFI legacy board - DUET with optional REFIND - with USBSetup." How ever, when I try to boot to the stick, either of the following happens:

*Red text "BErrorArt!" is printed
or
*Same text flashes momentarily and the system enters memory testing screen with "12 Gigabytes of memory tested" + unmoving progress bar in the bottom.

I've updated to the latest BIOS and everything else works smoothly. I've also tried two different USB sticks and tried to install DUET with cmd.

Either try to restore the original default setting from the BIOS, swap around the RAM or check the older UDK2015 linked on the first page.

Zitat von noInk im Beitrag #428

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Either try to restore the original default setting from the BIOS, swap around the RAM or check the older UDK2015 linked on the first page.

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Zitat von goucax im Beitrag #429

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I'm still curious, every time I boot there's a 2-minute RAM check with a progress bar at the bottom. Is this part of the DUET-REFIND or my BIOS?

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Should be instant unless there are issue while loading some driver.
Disable all the additional motherboard controller like the NEC, VIA, JMmicron and Marvell etc, etc till you found the culprit.
Is this happening with both 2015 and 2017?

Zitat von SkOrPn im Beitrag #430

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Zitat von goucax im Beitrag #429

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I'm still curious, every time I boot there's a 2-minute RAM check with a progress bar at the bottom. Is this part of the DUET-REFIND or my BIOS?

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Yeah that isn't supposed to happen, the ram check only lasted a few seconds on all my old boards. Not sure what that means or how to fix it. Maybe there is a command that could be used to skip the RAM check?

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Zitat von noInk im Beitrag #431

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Should be instant unless there are issue while loading some driver.
Disable all the additional motherboard controller like the NEC, VIA, JMmicron and Marvell etc, etc till you found the culprit.
Is this happening with both 2015 and 2017?

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Nice X58 system. Almost like mine was too. I had the Rampage III Extreme and the X5650 at 4Ghz and 12GB RAM at 1600, plus the SM961 running Windows. It was a great system for almost a decade for me and got even better at the end when I was playing with DUET and M.2. But now I moved on finally to Ryzen, its just too cheap to ignore for new hardware.

If the OS detect all the physical RAM as usable that's "working as intended".
Since I made a custom UEFI bios with NVME support for the DX58SO and the board is working just fine if not better then the other legacy X58 I got, the 2017 version is still @ just one or two revision over the 2015 linked build.

Hey @noInk

Would it be possible to get a copy of your custom DX58SO bios please? I might someday drive up and visit my good friend who has a old DX58SO and update his bios for Him. He only has a i7-920 so someday I suspect we will be upgrading it to a hexa core xeon and nvme. Lol