Hi Everyone, it's been about 5 years since The HACKINBEAST (my prior hackintosh Dual CPU / Triple GPU PC build). The ULTRABEAST was a 2+ year project that was finally finished about 3 months ago. Unfortunately for whatever reason has now stopped working. The initial install when we used (El Capitan) work fine. The problem though was that it would freeze every 2 to 3 hours. After several months of going back and forth figuring out what the issue was, it came down to a possible memory leak in the GPU's. So what we did was waited for an Nvidia update and we finally got one and when we installed it and updated to Sierra, the screen went black and stop working altogether.
Now the person that help me program this no longer wants to help me and I'm stuck pretty much by myself with this $8500 system (you can build it yourself for around $2,500 to $4,000). As you can probably tell by the photos, quite a bit of time went into this build. This was the first PETG tubing build I ever did. I'm wondering if maybe it's the GPU's that need to be updated to the 1080 TI's or Titan X (Maxwell) GPUs? I don't even know if the 980Ti's, 1080 Ti's or Titans X's can work together and in SLI mode. I've seen builds with them working, but don't know if it's my 3 x 28" 4K monitors that are causing the issue. When I ran one 28" 4K monitor it never froze. Again, using 3 monitors, it's freezing every 2 to 3 hours and I have to restart my machine. I haven't seen anything online about it, but it would be something really great as I would like to be able to see if I can get a system like that built with a dual CPU setup.
I was last told by (Andrew Kern of RampageDev.com) "I fixed the Nvidia problem, it was BIOS related, in the video op ROM. I had selected UEFI, thing is if you put it back to Legacy the GPU work and now I'm running on Nvidia drivers again." I don't know if that directly came from Andrew or someone else that was giving him the input as it was a Jpeg of a text that he emailed me. Well I went into my PCIe/PCI/PnP Config menu, I saw this:
Launch Storage OpROM Policy [UEFI only] Launch Video OpROM Policy [UEFI only]
and set them BOTH on Legacy.
Launch Storage OpROM Policy [Legacy only] Launch Video OpROM Policy [Legacy only]
Looking at it NOW that may have been my issue, as I probably should've only changed the Video OpROM and not the Storage OpROM.
It doesn't matter now as my Mobo is giving a "B2" (error) that won't allow me to go back into my BIOS to change anything. Supermicro's tech support (and it was quite a few guys I spoke with in that dept) said it was a module or issue with an external part (i.e., RAM, GPU, CPU), or it could be one of the module RAM or GPU slots not working anymore. I have since packed up my Mobo and shipped it to their repairs dept. I will be receiving my Mobo back within about 2 weeks. Here's my system set up:
Motherboard : SuperMicro X9DAi-O RAM: 128GB (16 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 MHz PC3-10600R ECC (Uprgraded to 128GB DDR3-1600 ECC RAM) CPU: 2 x E5-2697 v2 Intel (Water Blocked) GPU: 2 x 980 Ti 6GB (Water Blocked) (Upgraded to 2 x Titan X Maxwell 12GB) PSU: EVGA 1600 P2 Monitors: 3 x Asus MG28UQ 28" 4K
Thanks for taking the time to read this and please let me know if any of you have any thoughts about any of what I just shared. Hope you like the Geekbench as well as the Cinebench Scores. Now all I care about right now is that the machine works. Can't wait to get the Mobo back to test everything out.
Here's a video link showing the ULTRABEAST and explaining my issue:
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