ZitatYou do not need a server board to use a Xeon E5 v3 CPU. Most X99 motherboards work great even with Reg ECC memory (although Reg ECC memory is usually not officially supported)
ZitatWhile most desktop boards will not have support for vPro and TXT, we have been able to use Xeon E5 v3 CPUs and registered ECC memory on every ASUS and ASRock X99 board we have tried without few, if any, problems. The eight RAM slots on most X99 boards will limit you to a maximum of 256GB (8x32GB) of RAM instead of the 768GB the Xeon CPUs technically support, but that is the only issue we've seen. In fact, we are currently using Xeon E5 v3 CPUs on the ASUS X99 Deluxe motherboard on all of our Genesis I and Genesis I Quiet Edition systems. This lets us have up to 18 cores and 256GB of RAM in a workstation without giving up desktop features like USB 3.0, onboard audio, or WiFi.
It has been known that X99 is ECC ram compatible in native. Manufacters, like Asus, has tested ECC momeries only on small portion of mobos and gives full support for them. It there anyway to increase the options of ECC in UEFI with mobos that is not fully supported by manufacter? Is there some hidden options or combatible UEFI modules over all x99 mobos?
examples of nativelly supported boards: ASUS X99-E WS ASUS X99-M WS ASUS X99-WS/IPMI ASUS X99-E WS/USB 3.1
For X79 with Xeon e5 v1 and v2 CPU Ecc unbuffered worked fine, however i could not boot with ecc registeted. This is on an Asus P9X79 Pro board. Bearing in mind that on both X79 and X99 the memory controller is on the CPU my feeling is that this is an artificial intel imposed limitation, probably via the ME. Its a similar story of ecc being supported on i3's but not on i5/i7 or with the E3 xeons being locked out of the consumer 1151 platforms - standard Intel bs.
I am using Xeon prosessor, but before to order the memory kit I am still worried about possible lack of watchdog and communication between operating system and momery modules case of bit corrections. If I have understant the whole thing right.
I compared Bios files in UEFITool and in the first look I didn't find any additional UEFI module. Bios files modules and order of the modules is almost indentically.
Yes, some BIOS have hidden ECC settings disabled. What BIOS particularly do you want checked out for this kind of settings? I wont look through a bunch for you, that would take too long, but if you have a board or two in mind I will check for you.
Please don't send PM's for help on BIOS edits, I can't help with BIOS in PM's. Please make a thread and I will try to help as soon as I can - thanks! If you appreciate my efforts and are willing to donate to help improve my hardware, gift cards work for me (Amazn, NuEgg, eBa) - send me a PM I view the forum like this, please bump your thread 1x every 24-48 hours if no reply
I own Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 and I am comparing to X99-E WS/USB 3.1. I noticed just that there is one number difference in embedded controller version. Could there anything to do with ECC memories?
I doubt EC version like that matters, one probably just updated more recently. What is your goal, trying to get ECC support for the X99-A?
Please don't send PM's for help on BIOS edits, I can't help with BIOS in PM's. Please make a thread and I will try to help as soon as I can - thanks! If you appreciate my efforts and are willing to donate to help improve my hardware, gift cards work for me (Amazn, NuEgg, eBa) - send me a PM I view the forum like this, please bump your thread 1x every 24-48 hours if no reply
Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #8I doubt EC version like that matters, one probably just updated more recently. What is your goal, trying to get ECC support for the X99-A?
Yes, I am trying to get full support for ECC. Any idea where the embedded controller might be? Name of the module? Is that DXE or PEI driver?
EC update is often separate from BIOS, are you sure it's in Asus BIOS itself? Did you check all the available download files on Asus site?
I will look at the X99-A BIOS for you tonight and see if any settings for ECC are hidden. Do you see any at all? If yes, what all do you see regarding ECC?
Please don't send PM's for help on BIOS edits, I can't help with BIOS in PM's. Please make a thread and I will try to help as soon as I can - thanks! If you appreciate my efforts and are willing to donate to help improve my hardware, gift cards work for me (Amazn, NuEgg, eBa) - send me a PM I view the forum like this, please bump your thread 1x every 24-48 hours if no reply
Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #11EC update is often separate from BIOS, are you sure it's in Asus BIOS itself? Did you check all the available download files on Asus site?
I will look at the X99-A BIOS for you tonight and see if any settings for ECC are hidden. Do you see any at all? If yes, what all do you see regarding ECC?
Thanks for your effort. Remember look for X99-A/USB 3.1
Asus bios files updates EC. You cannot updated it separately. That is all I know.
Does anyone know what DXE driver: platform stands for?
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