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Problem with a Precision 7920 Tower and Pcie bifurcation
Hi, I have a problem with a Precision 7920 Tower. I wanted to know where to enable the PCIe bifurcation in the bios?
Tab one: "Dell 5KPNT Seagate Nytro XP7200 Quad NVMe M.2 FH PCIe-x16 SSD adapter"
installed in slot n.6 (with 2 CPUs) it is not detected in the bios and not even by the operating system. The board above has 4 NVMe M.2 SSDs of 2TB each 970 EVO Plus Samsung.
Thanks for the attention.
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Chino de Oro
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Posted July 18th, 2023 16:00
There is no bifurcation settings in BIOS. There are other related settings.
Default settings for miniSAS ports, all drives are enables.
Default settings for Intel VMD (RAID), all front PCIe bay are enabled. All PCIe slots are on Auto mode (enabled).
Have you test the Seagate card on other x16 slots connected to 1st CPU to verify its working condition.
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Posted July 19th, 2023 02:00
Starting with the closest to CPU, test with slot #2 and slot #4 as they are wired for x16 lane.
Edited: Just note that DELL-Cares referred you to bus allocation. Those options are for thunderbolt use. But the default settings should already allocated enough PCIe lane for 2nd CPU slots.
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Posted July 19th, 2023 02:00
I apologize for the long wait today.
Here is a link you may refer to for Pcie bifurcation process.
Please ensure you do not do this in the drive that has the OS installed on it, to avoid data loss.
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Dell Partner GEM Program, Out of Warranty Support Options, BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) certificate, Get a copy of your Dell invoiceIn the bios the settings are like in your post mentioned before.
I tried the Seagate card in other slots as well to no avail.
Even a third-party (non-dell certified) card from Kalea Informatique won't work.
I remember that on the board there are 4 NVMe M.2 SSDs of 2TB each 970 EVO Plus Samsung
to partition and format.
I am also attaching photos of the bios information the card is allocated to slot 6 cpu 1.Thanks for the attention.
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Posted July 19th, 2023 14:00
I see that you already have a video card installed on slot 2 and a thunderbolt card installed on slot 4.
There are 2 tests to perform, first, remove the thunderbolt card, and installing the Seagate card on slot 4. This will test the functionality of the Seagate card. Second, remove the video card from slot 2 and installing it to slot 6_CPU1, this will test the functionality of PCIe slots from 2nd CPU.
Note that your machine will restart 3 times before boot up, this is normal as it makes adjustment when seeing hardware changes.
Also note that an empty adapter card won't show up in BIOS, it must have nvme drive(s) installed.
After having test results, you can restore the video card back to slot 2 and thunderbolt card back to slot 4.
I installed the graphics card in slot 6 cpu1 and the Seagate in slot 4.
Removed the Thunderbolt.
The machine boots up and the graphics card works but the Seagate is not detected.
I was wondering but the disks installed on the Seagate are still to be initialized and partitioned and then formatted, is it possible that it is not detected for this?Chino de Oro
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Posted July 19th, 2023 17:00
Nah, something is wrong with the Seagate card. Just get yourself a generic adapter such as Asus Hyper and transferring all NVMe drives over.
You can put the video card and thunderbolt card back to their original location, and closing this thread as nothing is wrong with your workstation or the BIOS settings.

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Posted July 23rd, 2023 20:00
Hi, understood the problem is the ssd model that prevents the card from being detected, I changed it with Crucial and everything works.
Thanks for the attention.