Which 775 mobo works with IBM m1015?

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I have a Intel Q9450 cpu and the motherboard I am using is P45 Gigabyte EP45-DS3P.

It turns out that the IBM M1015 does not work with this motherboard. So I am looking for another 775 socket mobo that works with m1015. There are some 775 mobos for sale today, but all are low end, and have few PCI-e slots. I need 4-5 PCI-e slots.

Do you know of any 775 socket mobo that works with IBM m1015? Anyone having success with such a combo? The more suggestions, the better.

Apparently, someone here is using ASUS P5Q-E with a Q9550 and m1015, but he has problems running IT-mode, he said (in the "Solaris JBOD M1015" thread)
 
I tried two old LGA775 Gigabytes, all failed.
ASRock is said to work flawlessly with RAID-Cards in its PCIe x16.
 
If you can flash it to IT-mode Intel DG45ID works fine, it doesn't support flashing though at least using the original firmware. The Q45-series should also work fine as they're essentially the same boards. The DQ45EK is a good deal but only 2 DIMMs. Why do you need so many PCIe slots? You'll probably only find that many on recent platforms and server boards. Have in mind that only VGA works after inserting a card in the PCIe 16x-slot on the board mentioned below.

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-micro-A...DM/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1321908486&sr=8-11
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Executi...17ZM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321908486&sr=8-1

//Danne
 
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I have an M1015 (and nVidia GTX-260 GPU, Mellanox MHEA28-XTC Infiniband HCA) stuffed into an EVGA 780i SLI FTW. The M1015 worked fine with the RAID bios and when flashed to IT mode as well. This board has electrical x16/x16/x16/x1 with the NF200, if you can find one on eBay it's a pretty good fileserver board.
 
I can confirm that Asus p5b se works fine with Ibm m1015. I just flashed a controller to IT mode with it :)
 
Wow. Great info, people! Keep em coming, so I can read more about which mobo suits my needs best. The besto forum. :)

I need 4-5 slots, because:
1) graphics card
2) Intel NIC
3) IBM m1015
4) Maybe another IBM m1015
That is 4 slots. Minimum I need three, but preferably 4-5.
 
Going with one of the Intels boards mentioned above eliminates 1 and 2 since they have integrated graphics and Intel NICs. If you want an additional one there are both PCI and PCIe (1x) slots available.
The only limitation is that you need to have the card flashed to IT mode before inserting it and you cannot add another controller since there isn't a additional slot supporting it. Finding a "cheap" board that works with 2 8x (or better) PCIe is very rare if you're looking at the 775 socket platform.
//Danne
 
brutalizer said:
Wow. Great info, people! Keep em coming, so I can read more about which mobo suits my needs best. The besto forum. :)

I need 4-5 slots, because:
1) graphics card
2) Intel NIC
3) IBM m1015
4) Maybe another IBM m1015
That is 4 slots. Minimum I need three, but preferably 4-5.
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Personally i would ebay the Q9450, and would go with a newer more efficient cpus, maybe a mobo like ASUS P8B WS LGA 1155 Intel C206 ATX Intel Xeon E3 Server/Workstation Motherboard. Has 4 PCIe slots, you can install a gpu. I had the mobo briefly, i had issues with stability but was due to memory not the mobo, and i did try an Intel SASUC8i and worked fine, not sure on your m1015. Even comes with dual intel nics (82574L) so you might not need to us the dedicated intel nic, it can run xeons or i3, so you could chose the cpu that best fit you needs.
 
IT m1015 works on the P5Q-e no problems so far.

x16-1: Intel AT 10GbE
x16-2: m1015 IT FW
x16-3: Intel Dual Port ET

Windows 7 x64, I'll try OI_151 tomorrow

I had the whole system, but if all you have is the cpu I would look at a different platform.
 
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