Netgate Discussion Forum
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Search
    • Register
    • Login

    NF592-Q170 with AOC-SGP-I4

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved
    Hardware
    3
    6
    804
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • P
      PLBarton
      last edited by

      I hope someone can help me with this, I have opened tickets with both Jetway and Supermicro, but their assistance has been slow in coming.  I have recently purchased 2 Jetway NF592 boards along with 2 AOC-SGP-i4.  When I connected the AOC-SGP-i4 the BIOS initially reflected the 4 extra NIC ports in addition to the existing 8.  At this point I installed pfSense and during the boot process I observed all 12 NICs being loaded with the daughterboard being igb7-igb10.  However after a reboot the BIOS never recognized the daughterboard again as well pfSense neither.  I cannot find many references to these cards anywhere so I am writing here hoping for some assistance.

      So far I have swapped out both motherboards and both daughterboards, switched the PCIe jumper on the motherboard from 3.3v to 3.3VSB.  I have switched the power supply and memory.  Nothing changes the fact that the daughterboard is no longer recognized inside the BIOS.

      I hope someone has experience with this hardware combination and can shed some light.

      Thank you,

      PLBarton

      C 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • P
        PLBarton
        last edited by

        Jetway came through with the fix.  For future reference here it is:

        The current PCI-E setup for NF592 is 4 * PCI-E x1. Please use the utility below to change it to 1 * PCI-E x4:
        https://u37969913.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37969913/utilities/PCIE/nf592x4.rar

        How to:
        Prepare a bootable USB drive with MS-DOS.
        Extract and save nf592x4 files to the USB drive.
        Power on NF592 and boot from the USB drive.
        Run X4.bat under DOS prompt.
        Remove the power for 10 min after running X4.bat
        Reconnect the power and try SuperMicro AOC-SGP-i4 again.

        applying this change fixed my system and pfSense was able to recognize all 12 Ethernet ports.

        PLBarton

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
        • I
          iormangund
          last edited by

          Hey, I was wondering if that board came with a kabylake ready bios? What processor did you put in it? Have been considering getting it but have no skylake cpu I could do a bios update with.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • P
            PLBarton
            last edited by

            I used the Intel i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz cpu.

            PLBarton

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • I
              iormangund
              last edited by

              Ah ok, a skylake cpu. Ty

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • C
                coolspot @PLBarton
                last edited by

                @PLBarton Do you still have this patch? I recently installed a i225-LM PCIe 4x card and the operation seems wonky and I wonder if it is related to x1 vs x4 lane support?

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • C coolspot referenced this topic on
                • First post
                  Last post