9265-8i and GTX Titan not compatible

Well, I currently have a Rampage IV Extreme, 2 galaxy gtx 680 soc in sli, lsi 9265-8i and a creative x-fi titanium hd. I try to upgrade my 680 with the new titans. I install them, one an Asus and the other an EVGA Superclocked. I try it, but system hangs in the lsi boot rom. It never gets to the F/W Initialization. I try removing all the cards and left 1 titan and the lsi, and no luck. Also try the lsi on different slots and the same. If I remove the lsi, system boots fine and titan works. But as soon I put it back it hangs on the lsi. I contact lsi, evga, asus, even adaptec. None of them has a solution. LSI saids they don't check compatibility with videocards, that if changing slots doesn't work that I keep using the 680. Really? C'mon. According to Asus it should work, but they didn't test it. Evga saids something like that, I really don't remmeber exactly now. So, I think to change it with an adaptec 7805 if this solve the problem, but adaptec saids they don't if it can work or not, they didn't test it on rive. So, my next idea was changing the motherboard with a Workstation series, like the Asus P9X79E-WS. Contact presales from Asus, and again, they don't know if it going to work, it can or not. I contact lsi to check with this board, and they don't know either. So, I don't want to spend more than a 500 dollaras for a board to check if it is compatible or not, or worse, spending 600 with a new raid card. So, anyone here have a similar configuration? An lsi raid card with a titan? I have lastest bios from asus and also last firmware from lsi. My guess is a problem with the rom of the card going to the same address of the rom of the titan. Any suggestion?

Do you boot off of a RAID array on the LSI Card? If not, you could potentially disable LSI BIOS and let the machine boot into Windows. The LSI Windows drivers should be able to detect and use the RAID without the Int 13 support provided by the LSI BIOS (My experience with admittedly cheaper RAID setups has shown the RAID BIOS is only necessary to actually boot from an array. All of the management functions done by the BIOS should be able to be done via the controller's Windows driver and software). If you DO boot off of the array, perhaps you can try a fresh Windows install on a stand-alone drive (and still leave the LSI BIOS disabled) connected to the mainboard's SATA controller and see if you can get the RAID card and your Titans working.

I see your BIOS and firmware are up to date. Have you reset the BIOS yet? Have you tried playing around with PCI-E settings? I would say that's a good place to look.

An SB-E system with 2 Titans and LSI raid card will be rare, I'm not surprised that Asus hasn't tested that specific combo.

mvmiller12: Well, I do use the lsi card to boot. I currently use 4 x Intel 520 240 GB in RAID 0, for system, games, files. And use 5 Hitachi 4TB as storage on the onboard Intel controller. The problem is I need to boot from the lsi, so in the case as secondary storage could work, it doesn't for me.

Ultima99: The bios I installed about 1 month ago, and after the reset itself and configure the bios, I didn't reset again. What to do you mean playing with pci-e settings? I try the lsi card on different pci-e slots, also disable the asmedia controller on the bios, and still no luck. Asus didn't test even 1 Titan with a raid card, let alone 2 in sli. I have the problem even with only 1 card. They didn't even test it the P9X79E-WS with raid cards, and it is supposed to be a Workstation board with better compatibility for raid cards, lan cards, and others cards not being vga. So, why didn't put a compatibility list of the cards they tested and work? Who knows.

What version of the motherboard BIOS are you running? What slot combinations have you tried? Have you tried resetting the BIOS to default after installing the new cards?

The manual has specific slots that it recommends when using crossfire or SLI configuration.

Is there an option for 64 bit or >4GB device support in the BIOS? I forget what this feature is called exactly but it's generally disabled and if you enable it devices can then map memory >4GB, might help.

The truth is LSI RAID cards are manufactured for the server market, so running them on anything other than a server class motherboard is always going to be a crapshoot. Thus there's really not much if any testing that happens - even for "workstation" boards - done for server class components.

The "workstation" boards support ECC memory, that's really the only difference. The P9X79E-WS has also Intel NICs instead of the usual lower cost brands. It's still advertised as a gaming board supporting quad SLI/xfire, which usually means non standard PCIe configuration, additional chips to divide the lanes, etc, leading to potential trouble with RAID/HBA cards.

What the others meant by PCIe settings is that you usually can overclock the PCIe bus, and other advanced stuff, but if you didn't know I doubt you touched that.

hotcrandel: Bios version 3602. I try the titan on the first slot and the lsi on all the others slots. Since the bios update, I'm running at stock, no oc at all. Yes recommendation is there, but I have the problem even with only 1 card.

-Dragon-: I know what you said and I remember to see it on various bios, didn't remember if I saw that option in this bios, I will check now.

Aesma: It not only supports ecc but unregistered ram as well. It is advertised as a Workstation with better compatibility with raid and lan cards, even it includes support for the new Xeon Phi 3100, and Nvidia Tesla K20C, which are clearly not for gaming. I didn't oc the pci-e bus, and never do it in the past because not needed.

Well, I look on the bios and didn't find the option of >4GB support, but found CSM. It is only to support uefi and such for Windows 8. I'm currently using wondws 7 Ultimate x64, and what it happens is before the boot itself, so I think it can really give me any compatibility support. Anyway, just to update my findings. I guess I will have to buy the P9X79E-WS and wait to have luck that it will work.

Don't know if it will help any since I don't have a Titan, but for a point of reference I have an Asus p9x79 pro MB that boots from an LSI 9265-8i (2 Crucial P300's in RAID1) and also contains a ATI 6870 and a 7970 all at the same time. The LSI also worked fine with SLI'd GTX480s on the same MB.

Thanks, but my 9265-8i also boots fine with 680 in sli, so only have problem with titan.

Does EVGA/Asus have any bios updates for the Titan?

I'm using the Gigabyte X79S-UP5 with dual 670s and 9265-8i without issue, but contact Gigabyte for any support on it and they'll tell you it's a consumer board and they don't support Server OS's, so I wouldn't go that route since they probably tell you the same thing about RAID cards. Even though it uses the C606 server chipset...

I have to run my LSI cards in the first slot always. needs to be in 8x mode. it's possible your graphics card is negotiating for 16 lanes and then the lsi card is getting stuck in 4x or 1x mode somehow, motherboards have diff rules for it.

I run a 5870 and a 9265 on an asus board, that's what I had to do

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