Not that I'm asking for help (ASRock Rack & "vertical" CMOS battery)...

[XeonLab]

...but I'd rather not break my motherboard or fingers. Pic related, not same board but with same CMOS battery setup. Shoud I push, pull or both?



Image credit: https://www.servethehome.com/asrock...wesome-amd-ryzen-server-motherboard-broadcom/

 

[RolloZ170]

Pull the small plate down, then pull out the battery

 

[XeonLab]

Pull the small plate down, then pull out the battery

Yeah, literally figured it out myself 10 seconds ago and rushed back here before anyone could embarrass me....

 

[RolloZ170]

you need the pictures to plug it back in the right direction, battery fits both ways..

 

[XeonLab]

you need the pictures to plug it back in the right direction, battery fits both ways..

I'm not *that* careless, checked which way the old battery was installed before pulling it


And if anyone is wondering: yes, I like to make my life difficult with age-old hardware (Xeon-D board with AST2400) so digging out a VGA display from scrap heap will be quicker than installing some Docker-KVM-IPMI-Java -hack,

 

[mtg]

And if anyone is wondering: yes, I like to make my life difficult with age-old hardware (Xeon-D board with AST2400) so digging out a VGA display from scrap heap will be quicker than installing some Docker-KVM-IPMI-Java -hack,

I find a VGA->HDMI adapter to be a very good investment for this purpose
I have yet to see a IPMI/BMC with digital out, I'm sure they exist somewhere, but not common at all(?).

 

[nexox]

The AST2400 does do remote console via IPMI SOL just fine, if you're not running Windows that's often all you need to configure BIOS and get an OS installer running either in text mode or with VNC.

 

[RolloZ170]

I have yet to see a IPMI/BMC with digital out, I'm sure they exist somewhere, but not common at all(?).

AST2600 supports displayport. have seen a gigabyte server board with DP out.
BUT: the firmware of the AST2600 BMC must talk with the display ! not easy implementation.

 

[mtg]

AST2600 supports displayport. have seen a gigabyte server board with DP out.
BUT: the firmware of the AST2600 BMC must talk with the display ! not easy implementation.

Ooo fancy!

Yeah I can only imagine, DisplayPort is very complex compared to plain old VGA!