New member here, specifically for this thread!
I picked up a X570D4U last Friday to replace a Asrock B450M Pro4-F that’s been running my core network ESXi server for three nearly flawless years.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it’s been utterly terrible. I just cannot get the board to not hard lock minutes after booting an OS (Win10 for quick and dirty testing, ESXi 8.03 for use).
I’ve been building PC and servers since Intel Xeons were slotted and bigger than modern mini PCs so this is not remotely my first rodeo. Still, entirely possible I’m missing something here.
Reused components
- AMD Ryzen7 5700G
- Noctua 120mm tower cooler
- 2x Corsair CMK64GXM42E3200C16 2x 64Gb kits (128Gb total)
- Samsung PM991a 1TB NVMe SSD. Runs very hot, disappears from devices after some (literally minutes) usage.
- IBM/LSI(Avago/Broadcom?) ServeRAID-BR10il card flashed to plain SAS2004-IT, FW v20.00.07.00
- Mellanox Connect-X4 dual 25GbE card CX4121A, FW updated to whatever was current mid 2024
OG BIOS (1.10) was too old to POST the chip so I updated it to latest beta (1.57) from the website, along with latest beta BMC FW (2.07).
I’m getting random reboots and freezes during installs. When Windows installs, it’s plagued with random hard freeze lockups. The Samsung PM991a SSD simply disappears from the BIOS and the heatsink is roasting hot.
Replacing that with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1Tb sorts both the heat and disappearing issues. Doesn’t stop the system hard locks and reboots. ESXi or Windows doesn’t seem to matter, although ESXi reliably locks up 1-3 minutes after booting just sitting there idle.
I’ve halved the Corsair ram kits, swapped it out for 2x Crucial CT16G4DFRA32A.M16FR, played with voltages to the ram (the Corsair wants 1.35v which upsets the BMC logs very much).
- Pull the SAS2004-IT card - no fix
- Pull the Mellanox CX4 card - no fix
- Flash back to BIOS v1.50 - no fix
- BMC firmware back to 1.39 - no fix
I’m kinda at the end of my road here so looking for hail Mary suggestions as to the secret BIOS setting that says “don’t crash in minutes”.
AsrockRack tech support is 48 hours deep since I reached out and got the automated reply so there’s not much to go on there…