I did a stupid (H11SSL-i)

[dragon2611]

I used the sup tool from Linux to flash the bios on a H11SSL-i (in a 1013S-MTR), but It seems I downloaded the bios for a Rev2 board and I have a rev1 so It tried to flash a 32MB bios to a 16MB board (Surprised it didn't error, but it claimed it did it OK so I didn't even realise my mistake until too late).

Just for extra fun the machine is remote asking someone to try the bios recovery procedure (https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/UEFI_BIOS_Recovery.pdf ) but I think I've probably bricked it. (Unless it's stuck on a prompt and using the dGPU that's in that box).

Reason I was flashing the bios is I wanted to see if it would help with passing through the A310 LP I had in there, I got the card working mostly in a windows vm, but it was complaining about Rebar, couldn't seem to get it to play nice with a Linux VM, it would see the card but any transcodes that were trying to use it would just fail.

I guess if recovery doesn't work It was an expensive whoopsie and I might have to see if anyone's selling another one cheap.

 

[RolloZ170]

reflash correct BIOS with BMC/IPMI WebGUI ?

 

[CyklonDX]

Depending on your location you can also contact gpu repair people they have tools to flash or replace your bios chip.

 

[dragon2611]

reflash correct BIOS with BMC/IPMI WebGUI ?

Claims it fails validation, but then again it does that on the working server as well I believe it’s the right file Firmware Resources | Support the release notes say it’s for the I as well

 

[RolloZ170]

Claims it fails validation

you sayd you have H11SSL-i
so better take the BIOS for h11SSL-i

 

[dragon2611]

you sayd you have H11SSL-i
so better take the BIOS for h11SSL-i

Firmware Resources | Support

Firmware Resources | Support Download Supermicro resource.

www.supermicro.com

That’s the 32MB one I flashed by mistake the first time

 

[RolloZ170]

That’s the 32MB one I flashed by mistake the first time

my mistake sorry.
yes, BMC/IPMI will not work. so you have to replace the BIOS chip or use a clamp&programmer(i.e.ch341a)

 

[dragon2611]

I’ll get someone to give the usb recovery thing a try but I think I suspect I’ve toasted it, well that was an expensive mistake thankfully I got the pair of them fairly cheap but still

 

[dragon2611]

Does anyone know if it should be called Super.ROM , SUPER.ROM or super.rom

the pdf I linked says Super.ROM but then I’ve found other places (even on sm site) where it’s in both lowercase and all uppercase

 

[LittleJason99]

I think the flash tools are freedos based, they likely don't care about CaSe SeNsItIvItY....

 

[dragon2611]

I think the flash tools are freedos based, they likely don't care about CaSe SeNsItIvItY....

The recovery procedure isn’t it will be baked into the boot loader assuming that’s intact enough to do it.

basically have a file of that name on a usb key and mash ctrl+ home I think it was then pray to the server gods and If lucky it will reflash