EU Microsoft Project Olympus Dual Epyc 7003 Boards - 87,12€ each

[RolloZ170]

I tried some old radeon videocards (old ones without extra powersupply) before. they wont work.

it is a question of cards vBIOS.
some tried GT710/740 with no video, after flashing some vBIOS it worked (don't know which)
so it need some UEFI support and must be signed right way.
on a good picture of this Naples olympus board i see a Gigabyte GV-R523D3-1GL rev. 2.0 (Radeon R5 230)
i have tried a AMD Radeon R5 430 (Dell) but did not work for me.

 

[Mutilator]

it is a question of cards vBIOS

hmm ok i see. i ordered a GT530 months ago, for 15 €...wont work...

 

[RolloZ170]

hmm ok i see. i ordered a GT530 months ago, for 15 €...wont work...

if you got it up with video and diasable sec.boot, enable CSM all cards work. but if you clear cmos the hazzle starts from begin.

 

[RolloZ170]

hmm ok i see. i ordered a GT530 months ago, for 15 €...wont work...

depends on the vendor. e.g. MSI can work but other not.

 

[RolloZ170]

i don't know if this is the main issue and if it helps.
read this

In this case, most GPUs will not show any output by default as their ROMs are usually signed with the global Microsoft cert.

GitHub - danielztolnai/vbios-secure-boot: A guide and tools to use your GPU with custom keyed secure boot

A guide and tools to use your GPU with custom keyed secure boot - danielztolnai/vbios-secure-boot

github.com

 

[Andreiva]

Has anyone actually deployed and used these or similar Microsoft/Azure servers in their lab successfully ? Do they have any pitfalls that only show up after being used longer term?

 

[marciferi]

it is a question of cards vBIOS.
some tried GT710/740 with no video, after flashing some vBIOS it worked (don't know which)

He used a EVGA GT730 with a MSI vbios and it worked for him. I tried to do the same thing with a GIGABYTE GT740 and none of them worked for me. (I have the Intel 15061-1A motherboard)

 

[RolloZ170]

He used a EVGA GT730 with a MSI vbios and it worked for him

not any MSI vBIOS work. but if that solved the non video issue, it is clear where the problem is located.

 

[marciferi]

I will buy a gigabyte R5 230 for my last resort since that's the original GPU that came with this motherboard. if that doesn't work i might buy a DELL R740.

 

[marciferi]

depends on the vendor. e.g. MSI can work but other not.

What card did you used to get an image from?

 

[RolloZ170]

What card did you used to get an image from?

zotac GT 630 ( it seems i was lucky )
but with the dual olympus LGA3647 (1st gen) one, there is a 2nd gen MS Project Cerberus.
all of them have the same issue with no video.
unfortunaly i sold the board, so i can' try some BIOS tweak like modify/remove sec.boot keys.
once you got it up, you candisable sec.boot, enable CSM and put any card it.

 

[marciferi]

I may have a new discovery? I was able to connect to the BMC trough SSH but the text is all giberish. I try to change all text encoders and seee what i can do.

http://imgur.com/a/ta7EzI8

 

[RolloZ170]

I may have a new discovery?

from olympus manual: you may try this:

5.6 Verifying the SOL
1 Enable SOL.   
Launch a console and use the IPMI tool to activate SOL with the
BMC IP address (obtained in step 3 of section 5.5) with the following
command:
# ipmitool -I lanplus -U USERID -P PASSW0RD -H 
192.168.1.192 sol activate

 

[marciferi]

Here is my BMC logs. I still wont get an image.

 

[RolloZ170]

Here is my BMC logs. I still wont get an image.

have you dump of your bIOS chip ? i could try some chnages with CSM,sec.boot keys etc.

 

[TrevorH]

That's quite a lot of machine checks...

 

[RolloZ170]

Here is my BMC logs. I still wont get an image.

tried serial over LAN ? you get text based BIOS POST screen. you can change some options, disable sec.boot, config CSM, OpRom rules, set boot devide to install OS (OS can drive the GPU)

The default setting of SOL is 115200/8/N/1.

 

[FiTFO]

I will buy a gigabyte R5 230 for my last resort since that's the original GPU that came with this motherboard. if that doesn't work i might buy a DELL R740.

supermicro x11dpu is pretty similar and on ebay.de for ~200 euro for a barebones. 2U/HE, 12xLFF with 4 of the slots for NVME, dual 3647 with 12 RAM slots per CPU, 4x10gbe networking.

 

[marciferi]

Since then, I was able to get an image out of it. I will try to make a document how to do it. and if someone have questions i will try to awnser them about it. With IPMITOOL (WSL, debian 13), trough the BMC the BIOS can be access and can change settings, it's also recommended to already have an opperating system with UEFI. (so far i have installed a Windows Server 2025 Datacentre)

 

[mambus]

Since then, I was able to get an image out of it. I will try to make a document how to do it. and if someone have questions i will try to awnser them about it. With IPMITOOL (WSL, debian 13), trough the BMC the BIOS can be access and can change settings, it's also recommended to already have an opperating system with UEFI. (so far i have installed a Windows Server 2025 Datacentre)

hey, thanks for your effort I will wait the document and I think im not the only one , LOL