Motherboard for Windows

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Why the change in Motherboards from Supermicro?

Are these new ones Better?

wanting to run windows and IPVMS software only , any suggestions

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I assume you are talking about the HL15 v 2. They posted no reasoning, but I doubt it is a matter of “better”. I think Supermicro offers a similar spec’d board in the H12SSL-NT. The board they were using, the X11SPH was EOL, so they did need to do something, but I assume their decisions were more around the state of prior-gen Epyc vs Xeon for HL and B2B pricing they could get for boards and CPUs.

What sort of suggestions are you looking for? Mine would be to run, don’t walk, away from Windows.

What version or Winows are yout trying to run, Desktop or Server?

You might want to do a bit of googling or AI summarization about Windows and Epyc. It seems like there are some potential things you might come across which have workarounds;

  • TPM 2 The Asrock board itself does not have a TPM module, you have to enable fTPM in the BIOS (built into the Epyc “chipset”) or install a hardware TPM.
  • Black screen on install The VGA output is pretty basic and you may have to mess with it a bit if the driver gives you a black screen on install/first boot, or use a discrete GPU.
  • You may want to be sure you have the current AMD chipset driver(s) to avoid BSODs, etc
  • If you need fan control and monitoring outside of the IPMI, that might be an issue.

Just a few things I saw that might be an issue. My Windows use is minimal. They all seemed to have workarounds though.
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Hey Thanks I’ll study up this information. The IPVMS software runs on linux and windows and a few server versions as well. I have 15 or so running windows 10.

Very basic setup and know nothing on Linux.