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Hello, could someone please send or repost the b10/b11 BIOS updates, it looks like all are expired. Thanks!
If anyone has it, I need a copy of the most recent Quanta windmill bios. I have F03C3A07. Not sure what is on it until i boot it up but would like 10 and 11 to be able to add if get the v2 xeons
I have both a few wywinn and a single quanta board. Anything newer than the v3 bios for the wywinns?
Bringing one node back into service for the massive amount of cheap ram they can take. Also modding this hopefully this weekend to see if i can get an Nvidia 1070 to work (hardware transcoding). Already printing an external graphics card vertical mount. If that works, I'll get a bunch of ram for a massive transcoding ramdisk. Emby 4k transcodes take up huge amounts of space as it doesn't remove any of the transcode until complete and I'm tired of burning out SSD drives when i can just use ram
Thanks @hmartin for the bios copies
I have both a few wywinn and a single quanta board. Anything newer than the v3 bios for the wywinns?
Bringing one node back into service for the massive amount of cheap ram they can take. Also modding this hopefully this weekend to see if i can get an Nvidia 1070 to work (hardware transcoding). Already printing an external graphics card vertical mount. If that works, I'll get a bunch of ram for a massive transcoding ramdisk. Emby 4k transcodes take up huge amounts of space as it doesn't remove any of the transcode until complete and I'm tired of burning out SSD drives when i can just use ram
Thanks @hmartin for the bios copies
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My OpenCompute server keeps beeping and I can't figure out why.
The model is Open Compute Wiwynn SV7210, some people call it "Windmill" or "Freedom". CPU is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 x2 at 2GHz, with 64 GB of RAM (4GB x 16 sticks, all slots occupied)
I tried this fix first: Repasted CPU's with fresh thermal paste but it didn't fix it. Not sure what the problem is.
Here's a 10 second audio MP4A file demonstrating the problem
Copy of Friday at 11-32 AM.m4a
It does this noise every few minutes and it's driving me crazy. Other than this incessant beeping, the server runs flawlessly.
The model is Open Compute Wiwynn SV7210, some people call it "Windmill" or "Freedom". CPU is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 x2 at 2GHz, with 64 GB of RAM (4GB x 16 sticks, all slots occupied)
I tried this fix first: Repasted CPU's with fresh thermal paste but it didn't fix it. Not sure what the problem is.
Here's a 10 second audio MP4A file demonstrating the problem
Copy of Friday at 11-32 AM.m4a
It does this noise every few minutes and it's driving me crazy. Other than this incessant beeping, the server runs flawlessly.
Ugh bad news. The beep is back.
Previously, I was booted in ESXi 6.7u3 and it was beeping. Today, I was working in Ubuntu Desktop and it wasn't beeping.
But now I boot back into ESXi and it is beeping again so now I know it's not the hardware but ESXi that is causing it. Now I got to figure out what is it in ESXi that is making the beeps.
Previously, I was booted in ESXi 6.7u3 and it was beeping. Today, I was working in Ubuntu Desktop and it wasn't beeping.
But now I boot back into ESXi and it is beeping again so now I know it's not the hardware but ESXi that is causing it. Now I got to figure out what is it in ESXi that is making the beeps.
3/12 UPDATE: PROBLEM SOLVED. IT WAS THE APC UPS THAT IS NEXT TO IT THAT WAS BEEPING BECAUSE I WAS USING OF ITS >100% LOAD
Have installed the latest "Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS" on this OpenCompute server. The Big problem is that a reboot leaves the system hung that only a power-cycle will fix. It's the last item I have to fix before I can use this server. Has anyone else run into this problem?
Found the solution in Bug #1154749 “reboot does a shutdown instead of rebooting (OCP v...” : Bugs : The Open Compute Project
Solution: Add "blacklist mei" and "blacklist mei_me" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Solution: Add "blacklist mei" and "blacklist mei_me" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Okay, I'm hoping to update one of my Windmill boards to the modded B10 or B11 bios to see if I can get NVMe boot support, but the files that I've got are ROMs and the BIOS flash software and commands I've used in the past were expecting BIN files.
The string from my previous command was:
Will this work with F03C3B10.ROM that someone hooked me up with? I read through the section of the thread where this stuff was brought up in 2019 but the links are all dead and the commands aren't in the posts.
The string from my previous command was:
Code:
afuwin64\Afuwinx64 F03C3A07.BIN /P /B /N /K /X /R