Long time user, first time poster, just trying to get some seemingly unpublished information about a new build I'm working on.
Disclaimer: I know all about supported/unsupported configurations, I am not looking for anyone to remind me what should not be possible, apologies if this puts anyone off.
Build, at present:
Rampage VI Encore, latest BIOS, 0505
10920x
32GB Quad channel 3200 C14 GSkill
2 x Intel 7600p 256GB M2
1 x VROCISSDMOD Key
Sapphire RX580 8GB
LTSC 1809
My questions surround VMD layouts on the x299 platform. I cannot seem to find anywhere that details exactly which M2 ports / PCI slots are attached to which VMD.
At present I have been able to get both of the M2's attached to the DIMM.2, RAID1 them and make them bootable. My results have been mixed - Windows is asbolutely bootable, and runs completely fine to a point, across multiple reboots. The only problem occurs when Windows Update decides to install driver updates (I had already installed what was on the USB key). At that point I had a BSOD and failure to boot as the RAID was seen as a RAW disk.
My current plan is to keep using this config, start the build again but disable driver updates from Windows Updates, and see if I can get it to run stably, or reproduce the problem in a consistent manner. I am not at all worried about data loss, I am just looking to find out what is actually possible, rather than what is supported.
Once I have the boot drive sorted properly, I plan to re-use an existing pair of spinning rust in RAID1 as bulk data storage on the RSTe.
My backup plan, as per my original question, is to change to a "supported" configuration for a RAID1 boot volume, and go from there - hence my question about VMD layouts.
