Recent content by hansaya

This might help PROXMOX (Debian 10, KVM) enabling SR-IOV for Mellanox Infiniband cards

Since I got a extra motherboard I played with it alot(using software), non worked. You might be able to pull the bios flash chip off and reprogram it. But this leaves you with the issue of not being able to flash the IPMI. If you can send this out to Supermicro get it reflashed then there has to...

Unfortunately there is no solutions other than sending it to supermicro. I returned it because it was not as described. Ended up buying a another one from The Server Store and they had the same issue however their customer support was excellent and they managed to send me a motherboard that was...

I bought it from a recycler and they already sent out a replacement so I don't think recycler going to replace the socket(too expensive). If they give me a same type of board from same original owner, I will have to do a full return and get my money back. Sending this to supermicro seems like a...

Nope, that got me through one hurdle but ran into a another. I had to RMA the board anyways after finding out there are bunch of bent CPU socket pins. I'm hoping the replacement is not locked down.

Anyone purchasing this board should look into whether the bios is signed or not at delivery. After talking with supermicro on the subject of not being able to flash the bios, I learned that some vendors can lock the bios flash process by signing the firmware/bios. This will stop you from ever...

Thank you @frogtech you fixed it!

Any info on that I can read up on?

Has anyone had any issues updating bios or IPMI? I'm keep getting a error "BIOS validation failed" and on ipmi I keep getting "cannot downgrade" error. The board came with 3.2a bios and ipmi 03.88. This is one version behind and there are few CVEs fixed on new 3.4 bios update. On top of that I...