Let me start by saying using Discord to provide product support is a terrible, terrible, terrible practice. For some reason it refuses to let me in as well.
That out of the way, there seem to be no public resources on the Zimablade board. Is there a board diagram somewhere? I’m looking for the purpose of all headers, and potential alternative power in feeds.
To my shock, the BIOS revealed not only a CPU fan function, but also HD audio. These may just be features of the CPU and unpopulated on the board, but not clear. Additionally, I am having issues getting an option ROM screen to display for my RAID/HBA card. There’s shockingly little documentation on this product, for something advertised as DIY.
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I am also looking for this sort of info, specifically the connector to the side of the PCIE socket that looks like it might be for sensors?
Since no-one has replied to this topic since August I’m assuming that there is no schematic or good documentation for this board? Disappointing.
The blade has fan connectors on the back of the motherboard. We are gradually building our Docs, for example, we will update the motherboard connector wiring diagram next. Can you tell me what else you are concerned about? And, what information or settings do you need for your RAID/HBA card?
Frankly, it should be embarrassing to you that you don’t have so much as a header description anywhere, at this stage after product launch. Hell, traditional motherboards have them in stock photos most of the time, let alone an included paper manual. Throw an intern on it for 4 hours, boom, at least you’d have something even if you need to update it for more details later. Obviously you have the info, otherwise the product wouldn’t be able to be manufactured.
As far as the option ROM, I did finally find it tucked in the BIOS under (iirc) “Legacy” PCIE boot or something like that.
Unfortunately I do not have the board anymore as it proved to have hardware design flaws and they kept bricking themselves.