RioWorks HDAMA Dual AMD Opteron - PhoneixBIOS is not ACPI compliant

[vchiruve]

I am unable to install 64 bit version of windows server 2003. I get error message that system is not ACPI compliant. My Phoenix Bios V1.22 says ACPI is enabled. Is an updated bios available??

[SunBlackbird]

I am unable to install 64 bit version of windows server 2003. I get error message that system is not ACPI compliant. My Phoenix Bios V1.22 says ACPI is enabled. Is an updated bios available??

Try to install Win2003 without an ACPI HAL. Press F5 instead of F6 at bootup, select another computer type. This worked here.

[SunBlackbird]

I have a better solution. There is a BIOS Update for this Board. Update to BIOS Version 2.17 and all problems are gone. Contact me, if you are unable to retrieve the update from Arima. The website seems down today.

[andreainglese]

I have a better solution. There is a BIOS Update for this Board. Update to BIOS Version 2.17 and all problems are gone. Contact me, if you are unable to retrieve the update from Arima. The website seems down today.

i'd like to know if upgrading the firmware worked for you..i've the same problem!

[JerkyChew]

SunBlackbird, can you send me the BIOS, or link me to a site that works? The Arima site appears to be down, and all my searches have sent me back to that broken site.

My email address is memmott at gmail dot com. I have over a hundred of these servers that I'm trying to sell and being able to install Windows on them would be a nice selling point :-).

[SunBlackbird]

i'd like to know if upgrading the firmware worked for you..i've the same problem!

The BIOS 2.17 update works with Win2003R1. Winsetup finds an ACPI Multiprocessor Board. No ACPI BlueScreen. But I tried only the 32Bit version.
Unfortunaly Windows 2008 don't want to work with this BIOS. I am working on that. Perhaps someone has a workaround?

Greetz
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[SunBlackbird]

SunBlackbird, can you send me the BIOS, or link me to a site that works? The Arima site appears to be down, and all my searches have sent me back to that broken site.

My email address is memmott at gmail dot com. I have over a hundred of these servers that I'm trying to sell and being able to install Windows on them would be a nice selling point :-).

I will be home in a few days. I'll sent you the BIOS with that update utility on your mail account. Perhaps you want all the drivers and whats so on the Arima site for that board?

Greetz
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[JerkyChew]

Well, I got 32-bit XP up and running on the board and the only drivers I needed were the NIC drivers, which I found on Broadcom's site. Video worked at 1280 x 1024 and this was a test so I wasn't too concerned with performance, did Arima have goodies like chipset drivers that may have helped?

As for installing 2008, once I get the new BIOS I'll try some testing, some things I've read that could help are disabling the legacy USB support and shutting off ACPI altogether. I've put in an email to Accelertech support on the issue and will report back if I hear anything from them.

[andreainglese]

Well, I got 32-bit XP up and running on the board and the only drivers I needed were the NIC drivers, which I found on Broadcom's site. Video worked at 1280 x 1024 and this was a test so I wasn't too concerned with performance, did Arima have goodies like chipset drivers that may have helped?

don't know if it may help, but i've found this page that has some drivers..

arima_server

[JerkyChew]

Hmm, thanks for the link but these are all Rev G. My boards are rev D and the latest I can find is this link arima_server which only gives me verson 1.89. Will the rev G bios work or will I brick my system?

[andreainglese]

Hmm, thanks for the link but these are all Rev G. My boards are rev D and the latest I can find is this link arima_server which only gives me verson 1.89. Will the rev G bios work or will I brick my system?

i posted that link just for the "need drivers part", i missed that your motherboard was a rev D. I can't help with this question, sorry..

[hoyeboye]

Found an Arima site that is still up and running. There is an option for the HDAMA and the HDAMA rev G. I'm assuming the HDAMA is for all non-G revs. I hope so at least. I'm about to try the bios update on mine. Anyway, enjoy.
arima_server

[BradRWills]

Does anyone know how to use the Bios flash utility for an HDAMA rev. g ? I don't seem to be able to get DOS to boot, I just want to flash the bios!!

Will the flash utility boot itself??

[chilluk]

I have a better solution. There is a BIOS Update for this Board. Update to BIOS Version 2.17 and all problems are gone. Contact me, if you are unable to retrieve the update from Arima. The website seems down today.

Hi any chance of e-mailling me that Bios update please. I am having a nightmare here, evertime i try to install windows 2003 it can find my hard drives or the sata card

Thanks, my e-mail is alanburns1966@btinternet.com

[SunBlackbird]

Hi, here is a backup of the Arima HDAMA Drivers.

http://neurodump.cmplx.de/wp-content...and_Manual.zip

http://neurodump.cmplx.de/wp-content...and_Manual.zip

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[SunBlackbird]

Does anyone know how to use the Bios flash utility for an HDAMA rev. g ? I don't seem to be able to get DOS to boot, I just want to flash the bios!!

Will the flash utility boot itself??

A good way is to use a FreeDOS Live CD. (www.freedos.org) Boot without HIMEM.sys and EMM386, but with CDROM drivers. Burn your BIOS Update with the flash util on a DOS CD (ISO9660 only). Change dir to your CD drive. Change the discs, type the command discribed in the readme.txt and flash it.

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[hoyeboye]

If you currently have some version of windows running, you can run WinPhlash that comes with the driver bundle linked to above. I updated my HDAMA with it (non rev-G).

On another note, my non rev-G motherboard still is not fully ACPI compliant, or at least that's what the Win7 installer is telling me. I want to try the Rev G bios. After looking over the manuals for both, the only difference is that the Rev G board has "Integrated VRM support". Would this one spec be enough to brick my system?

Does anyone know how to use the Bios flash utility for an HDAMA rev. g ? I don't seem to be able to get DOS to boot, I just want to flash the bios!!

Will the flash utility boot itself??

[JerkyChew]

Where can I download that latest BIOS? I have about 150 of these boards in a storage unit so I can afford to test on a couple.

[hoyeboye]

Thanks for offering up a Guinea pig. The bios updates are here. Just check under the Rev G boards. I hope it works; I'm currently attempting to modify the boot process to exclude the check for ACPI and it's not going as well as I'd hoped.

Where can I download that latest BIOS? I have about 150 of these boards in a storage unit so I can afford to test on a couple.

[hoyeboye]

Any luck yet trying the Rev G firmware on the Rev D board? I have been unable to slipstreaming my win7 install DVD to removed the check for ACPI, and my last ditch effort to install Win7 in an Ubuntu Virtual Machine ended when I found out 64-bit VMs require hardware virtualization support, which this mobo doesn't offer. Back to the drawing board.