20 Most Recent SuperMicro X6DAL-TG Motherboard Questions & Answers

Make sure the DVD is last. This means it is plugged into the highest number SATA connector.

There are a lot of drivers that will not install under Win7. I set up one last month, and I think it was necessary to use Win8.1, 32 bit with the default Microsoft drivers, but my memory is in very poor shape.

That driver will be issued by the RAID card manufacturer. If this is a software RAID controlled by the motherboard, your only hope is the latest BIOS firmware R1.0c: Super Micro Computer Inc Products Motherboards Xeon Boards X6DAL TB2

Hi Ronnie,

Have a look here:

SuperMicro Driver Support

You will need to fill in which operating system your using from the drop down menu, then you can chose which driver you need from the last drop down menu.

Cheers

Myke

Yeah, but it's not the slot; it's the northbridge chipset or a PCI bridge driving it that's perhaps overheated or set funny.  If you use 2 CPUs they can fall out of step several ways, or your clock circuits can age badly by themselves!  Got fresh CMOS batteries in there?  It could be that PCIe was merely asked to run at a frequency it won't run.  You should carefully make sure the board is nice and clean, reflash or at least clear settings on the BIOS, confirm the PCI videocard boots, make sure all the chips are cooled well, and again see if you can get a PCIe card to work without complaint.

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Any PCI mounted card will work.

An electrolytic capacitor has failed. If one has failed it indicates that the board has overheated, and many other components are also weak. This Intel board is not of good quality. Replace with SuperMicro or Tyan, and improve the cooling airflow in the case.

This is usually a bad hard drive.

The POST process is documented in the user manual under BIOS Post Codes.

Usual cause. Under the Chip Set Menu in the BIOS Under South Bridge Configuration The setting Audio CODEC Interface has been set to disable.

The "beep codes" are located in your user manual in Appendix B

The first place is always the Debian Linux website, because most Linux packages are derived from Debian.

This is usually caused by the chip being disabled in the BIOS

"The BIOS can not shadow the ROM into system memory." This is usually caused by the ROM on a card trying to use the same memory space. Remember all of the ROMs have only the memory addresses from C800 to FFFF in the first megabyte available for shadow. This was designed in in the first IBM PC and remains to this day. Remove the other cards, and turn off both system ROM shadow, and video ROM shadow.

If you are good with a soldering iron the capacitors can be replaced. Make sure you can wick the excess solder out of the holes. Replace only with Japanese capacitors, and increase the airflow in the case and around the capacitor. This is usually a sign of overheating.

If the system boots, check the BIOS overheat settings. If no boot, Most common problem, BIOS is corrupted.