left of screen cutoff on new install with physical PC

[Brandon757]

With FreeNAS 11.2-U6:

I'm stuck at Console setup. The left 3 columns on my display are cutoff. Is this normal?

This is a new build for home theater PC use. I have experience with Windows and Linux but no datacenter experience.

Hardware:
Acer R221qbid monitor, using VGA input
Supermicro MBD-X11SSM, I booted with BIOS
Xeon CPU (I don't know the model, there are 4 cores)
64GB ECC RAM
VGA graphics on the motherboard
Samsung 850EVO 250GB for boot drive

not yet hooked up:
M1015 flashed to LSI 9211 P20 IT
two Intel DC S3700 100GB SSDs for SLOG
eight 10TB WD harddisks white label drives (shucked Easystores) for ZFS
one 750GB WD harddisk for Acronis True Image backups of the boot drive

I've tried power cycling the monitor but no change.

 

[Apollo]

With FreeNAS 11.2-U6:

I'm stuck at Console setup. The left 3 columns on my display are cutoff. Is this normal?

This is a new build for home theater PC use. I have experience with Windows and Linux but no datacenter experience.

Hardware:
Acer R221qbid monitor, using VGA input
Supermicro MBD-X11SSM, I booted with BIOS
Xeon CPU (I don't know the model, there are 4 cores)
64GB ECC RAM
VGA graphics on the motherboard
Samsung 850EVO 250GB for boot drive

not yet hooked up:
M1015 flashed to LSI 9211 P20 IT
two Intel DC S3700 100GB SSDs for SLOG
eight 10TB WD harddisks white label drives (shucked Easystores) for ZFS
one 750GB WD harddisk for Acronis True Image backups of the boot drive

I've tried power cycling the monitor but no change.

Without a screenshot it is difficult to interpret what you see.
But for concern, I would not bother using the VGA output, but rather make use of the IPMIcapability of the board.
This is done by installing IPMIView from Supermicro, onto a Windows PC and access your server remotely over the network.

 

[seanm]

I have hardware from iX and it also has some of the left edge cut off from VGA output. I don't think it's a much as 3 characters wide, but at least 1/2 a character wide. Can you take a photo?

 

[Brandon757]

I'm downloading the latest DVD for my motherboard (which has IPMIView). Looks like there's critical updates for BIOS and IPMI which I need to figure out how to do.

Here's a photo of the screen:

 

[Apollo]

Small picture I can't make real sense out of it. Can you add it as an attachment instead?

 

[Brandon757]

I updated the BIOS. It took 14 hours and I lost much hair...

On Supermicro's site:
X11SSMF9_524.zip
X11SSLF9_524.zip

Note there exists a X11SSL motherboard.

Now which one do you use for the X11SSM (box label MBD-X11SSM-O) with the AST1400 graphics chip?
If you choose X11SSMF9_524.zip, you've just bricked your MB.

The correct file for the X11SSM (with the AST1400) is actually X11SSLF9_524.zip. How's that for confusing? It took much studying of the docs, specs, and version histories to determine the correct firmware file. I'm not smart, but I remembered not being able to determine the correct firmware file when I bought the MB.

No change with display issue. Will try to get IPMI working tomorrow.

 

[Apollo]

I see what you mean.
I believe the issue is with your monitor synchronization. With VGA or more simply analog interfaces, you need to set your monitor to scale to whatever incoming signal it is sent.
Your monitor should have some auto tunning/config setting.
Nothing to worry about.

 

[pschatz100]

The monitor will also have settings for screen width and screen position. You need to adjust these settings.