I got a "non-working" Gigabyte MB10-DS3 off eBay for $50 hoping to try my luck. The board arrived and looked free from physical damage. I put some Hynix DDR4-2133 ECC UDIMMs in to test it out and not surprisingly the board turns on but got no VGA output. I could not tell if it actually completed the POST. The IPMI LED lits up but did not obtain an IP via DHCP. I tried clearing the CMOS but did not get anywhere with that either.
To my surprise after probably 5+ minutes, it actually POSTed. I was able to get into the BIOS and everything looked to be in working order. However every reboot would take equal amount of time for it to POST. I removed the HSF to take a look under it and it showed the 1541 as "Intel Confidential". This leads me to believe the board is some sort of engineering sample. Other things I noticed that the board is a "rev 1.1" which I don't believe Gigabyte has ever sold it as. They only list rev 1.3 on their site. Moreover, the rev 1.3 has Intel X552 whereas this board has Cortina. I noticed that the original product announcement did state that Cortina was the chipset used. The BMC information in BIOS comes up as empty and IP I configure the BMC as is also not reachable.
I'm looking for some ideas on what if anything I can do to fix the BMC. My guess is that the slow POST behavior is also related to it.
To my surprise after probably 5+ minutes, it actually POSTed. I was able to get into the BIOS and everything looked to be in working order. However every reboot would take equal amount of time for it to POST. I removed the HSF to take a look under it and it showed the 1541 as "Intel Confidential". This leads me to believe the board is some sort of engineering sample. Other things I noticed that the board is a "rev 1.1" which I don't believe Gigabyte has ever sold it as. They only list rev 1.3 on their site. Moreover, the rev 1.3 has Intel X552 whereas this board has Cortina. I noticed that the original product announcement did state that Cortina was the chipset used. The BMC information in BIOS comes up as empty and IP I configure the BMC as is also not reachable.
I'm looking for some ideas on what if anything I can do to fix the BMC. My guess is that the slow POST behavior is also related to it.
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