failed bios flash on Supermicro H11DSU-iN

[MountainBofh]

I was updating the bios on one of my servers at work last Friday. Its a system based on H11DSU-iN. I'm not sure what the hell happened, but the system does not POST now. I still have access via the IPMI. When I try to reflash it via IPMI, its bombing out on me. Any suggestions or ways to force it ?

Thanks

 

[RolloZ170]

When I try to reflash it via IPMI, its bombing out on me. Any suggestions or ways to force it ?

some better information what exactly happen would be nice.
if you got real bombs call the airforce.

 

[MountainBofh]

I was flashing the system via IPMI. It said it completed, and on reboot the system refused to POST. I'll dig up a screen shot of what the IPMI is saying now when I attempt to reflash it in a bit.

 

[RolloZ170]

what MB revision do you have ?

 

[RolloZ170]

MB Rev 1.02A with 16MB SPI flash ROM (only 7001)
MB Rev 2.10 with 32MB SPI flash ROM( 7001 & 7002 )

 

[MountainBofh]

1.02A

 

[RolloZ170]

1.02A

so you updated to supermicro BIOS R1.3 ?

 

[MountainBofh]

Sorry for the delay, work got busy. I still had the folder of the new bios, and I think I know what happened. The motherboard originally had bios 2.5 on it, so I naturally assumed (and wrongly so) that it was a version 2 board. Turns out when I physically checked it today, it is a verison 1 board. How it it had 2.5 on it prior to the flash, I have no clue.

So damnit, I pushed the wrong bios version and the stupid IPMI didn't warn me it was the wrong version. I'll see if I can get the exact error message when I try to push 1.3 bios tomorrow.

 

[RolloZ170]

are you running Naples or Rome ?
check what size is the BIOS chip its a SOP8, maybe its it modifed.

25L128xx or 25Q128 = 16MB
25L256xx or 25Q256 = 32MB

 

[MountainBofh]

Its a Naples. I'll double check the server tomorrow when I'm at the data center tomorrow and see what bios chip it has.

 

[RolloZ170]

ok, if it is 16MB chip some has taken the first half of the Rev.2.10 BIOS 2.5 and flashed to the board.
if it is 32mb chip the board was upgraded, but in that case the BIOS should have worked.

 

[MountainBofh]

Here's the bios chip.

 

[RolloZ170]

Here's the bios chip.

no this is BMC FW chip.
there is a SOP8 for BIOS.

 

[MountainBofh]

And here's the error I get when trying to flash the system via IPMI

 

[MountainBofh]

no this is BMC FW chip.
there is a SOP8 for BIOS.

Maybe this one ?

 

[RolloZ170]

Maybe this one ?




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sure

 

[RolloZ170]

And here's the error I get when trying to flash the system via IPMI

corrupt file, or not a signed BIOS (H11dsu-xxx-STDsp.bin)
what file do you use ?

 

[MountainBofh]

I've tried the bios's straight from Supermicro's webpage.

Firmware Resources | Support

Firmware Resources | Support Download Supermicro resource.

www.supermicro.com

 

[RolloZ170]

I've tried the bios's straight from Supermicro's webpage.

what file did you select....the zip ?

 

[RolloZ170]

Maybe this one ?




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16 or 32mb chip ?