Quad M.2 on Intel C602J

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This post is in response to this video:

So my Servermainboard (I use it as Desktop) seems to support the ASRock Quad M.2
At the moment i cant take the system down - however I’ll supply images of the AMIBCP BIOS editor.

My Mainboard is a Supermicro X10QBI currently with only one CPU populated (E7-4890v2)

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I can change the lane allocation of every single PCIE slot on the board.

With that sad, I sadly cannot test those claims - I dont have a ASRock QUAD m.2 card nor do I have 4 M.2 Devices, I suppose I could buy four of those M.2 -> PCIE x4 adapters on ebay an run 4 GPUs/Addin-Cards

So it would most likely work, but if I cant loan a Quad m.2 from somebody it will be only a theory - I sadly cant spend the money to test this - I just a student and I have to buy 3 of those Memory boards to be able to finally run 4 CPU’s

Hope this post was informative, best regards :slight_smile:

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I don’t think this counts as n think Wendell was referring to Intel - consumer grade hardware. Not enterprise/Xeon.

Must say interesting build you got going there.

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I suppose yes - it’s not really a consumer board :smiley: However It’s most likely one of a few intel Boards which does have support for Pcie slot lane spliting and since Wendell asked - I thought I point it out.

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Interesting setup.

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The pic is a little bit dated - now it has a vega 64 and its on an actual desk

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Yep, that’s why I said it’s probably leftover from a xeon feature. They did demo x299 boards at computex with lane splitting which is fine as long as there is a clockgen somewhere.

Some x299 boards are x16/x16/x8 but others are x16/x8/x8/x8 because of Intel’s screwy pcie lane rationing so possibly you end up in a situation where you’ve got x16 pcie nvme and then x8 graphics.

This splitting on xeon is how you can have 8-16 nvme slots in a chassis setup for storage.

But I haven’t got my hands on a board that works on x299 yet.

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that’s really nice tool, i wasn’t aware they were available publicly.

// has anyone tested this ami tool on consumer type hardware?
EDIT: Yep, tested it works fine even with x370 msi pro gaming carbon

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Well it is very nice, you can alter Bios settings and make hidden settings avalible

EDIT: AMI dont want them to be public so you have to find a russian mirror to download it

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well i haven’t found any hidden settings on msi x370 gaming pro carbon. Except that tools allows me to change amount of pci-e lanes of pci-e ports and m2 slots.

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Yeah on consumerboards - usually there are no hidden settings, but on serverboards there are a lot :slight_smile:

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i’ll test it out later on something old; but i doubt there are any hidden ones on server boards i own.

// my supermicro X9DRi-F bios doesn’t seem to be readable.
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well its likely too old.

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Be aware, no uefi bioses need an older version

// edit : I think you need amibcp 4.53 or 3. something

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that one is UEFI 2.3.1;
its C602 chipset

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Yes, sorry let me refrase that.
There are AMI Aptio V bios’s like mine - and there are Aptio IV bioses and you most likely need amibcp 4.53

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ah ok; got it. Thanks

would you have 4.53 tool ~ available to share?

// ain’t got time to take precautions at the time to grab it from russians.

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hope it works

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thanks, it works.

Now lets take a look.
//Edit: No options are hidden, everything is visible.

but i love it even more now. I’ll certainly will make some adjustments, and disable not needed pci-e ports.

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Have fun ;D

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oh I will

time to be free from pre-set pci-e lanes. Finally!
(ib4, i brick my mobo)

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If you set the column where it says default to user you can change it in the bios and you dont have hard code it in the rom