Update on my previous post on first page. X9SCM-F plus esxi 5.0 and LSI 9240-8i.
I had been running fon 10 months on Bios 1.0C
I ran the latest 2.0B bios which recommends running AMI_1.bat, then also running AMI_2.bat
After boot I could not get into LSI 9240-8i WebBIOS at all. It also...
I would not go with less than a Core i5. I think a reviewer on newegg said it worked fine. But be careful to check out if ECC RAM is supported; it may not be supported without a Xeon.
SuperMicro recommends a core i5 without video support.
Let us know what you find out.
I just pulled my hair out trying to this board to work with three LSI adapters. Thank you for posting the old BIOS firmware, as that was the key to finally getting this to work!
Here are my details and what I learned:
Purchased January 2012
Supermicro X9SCM, specifically X9SCM-F-O
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