I have a FW16 running BIOS 3.05 and Fedora 42 with Win 11 Pro dual-booted.
I want to upgrade to WiFi 7 via the Intel BE200 card. Forum posts here have recently confirmed loosely FW16’s AMD boards working with Intel BE200 cards with recent Linux Kernel updates.
I’m currently encountering POST error code sequence:
6 green 1 red 6 green 1 orange 2 blue 2 green 1 blue 3 green then flashing red (due to chassis intrusion detection switch with midplate off and internals exposed).
Has anyone “recently” gotten a FW16 with AMD 7040 to work with this Intel BE200 card? I specifically wanted the Intel BE200 due to support for 320 MHz channel widths on WiFi 7
The problem with the modern Intel cards is that they offload some of their work to an Intel CPU via CNVi/CNVio. It’s a cost cutting measurement that ultimately means they are made incompatible with any CPU that isn’t an Intel CPU that speaks this tech. The result on an AMD CPU is hence a failing POST.
The problem with the be200 isn’t cnvio related though, it works just well on old amd and intel(well pre cnvio) platforms as well as the raspberry pi. Also putting a cnvio card in a non cnvio capable platform doesn’t cause the same symptoms as we have here.
With all of the power management issues in the current BIOS revisions, I would not be surprised to see this turn into yet another unresolved BIOS issue. Perhaps the OP should try filing an official firmware bug report over at: GitHub · Where software is built
This is a bit too wide spread to be put on individual bioses, my guess is either hardware or microcode (agesa), the latter would get updated with the bios but that doesn’t make it a bios issue.
The be200 is doing something on the pcie level that really offends some amd platforms, finding out what exactly would likely require a pcie logic analyzer and some pretty deep amd knowledge.