Potential Deal: 2 x Dual 2011 nodes @$199, Quanta Openrack

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Gene

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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
 
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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.
 
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chiuljnk

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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.
 
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Hi, guys! I have Quanta DA0F03MBCE0 and F03_3B11 BIOS, it's Winterfell. Which BIOS model is the latest? Can you share it? Will Windmill BIOS F03C3A07 be suitable with my sytem?
 
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chiuljnk

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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?
 
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RyanMM

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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:

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afuwin64\Afuwinx64 F03C3A07.BIN /P /B /N /K /X /R
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.
 
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Hello. I have an old OPC platform and I want to boot from NVMe. I would be most thankful if you could send the b10/b11 BIOS updates. All links are expired. Thanks!
 
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omegadraconis

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Hi Anno,

I don't know which modules (nvme) these bioses may have as it's been some time since I've booted my windmill. I've upload a zip file with the versions I have, F03C3A07, F03C3B01, F03C3B04, and F03C3B11.

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Hello. I have an old OPC platform and I want to boot from NVMe. I would be most thankful if you could send the b10/b11 BIOS updates. All links are expired. Thanks!
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This is what I have for that:

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anno said:
Hi
Unfortunately these files (even B11) do not support booting from NVMe.
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No stock BIOS for this platform supports booting from NVMe.

I think some people have modded the BIOS with the relevant Dxe to boot from NVMe, but I don't know where those modded BIOSes are available.
 
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luckylinux

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I think you can always use something like Clover (usually intended for MacOS) on a USB Boot Stick and chainload the NVMe Bootloader from there.

Optimal ? No. But if you don't have alternatives I'd give that a try IMHO.
 
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omegadraconis

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It's possible to inject the nvme boot modules into the bios as explained here: [HowTo] Get full NVMe Support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS . I'm fairly sure this is how this was done by iguy. If you go down this path, back up the existing bios and make sure you flash only one node until you're sure it's working properly. You can use one of the two nodes to recover a bad flash if required. if you're not comfortable with then as Luckylinux suggested cover is one potential.
 
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omegadraconis said:
You can use one of the two nodes to recover a bad flash if required. if you're not comfortable with then as Luckylinux suggested cover is one potential.
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Clover ;)

github.com

GitHub - CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader: Bootloader for macOS, Windows and Linux in UEFI and in legacy mode

Bootloader for macOS, Windows and Linux in UEFI and in legacy mode - CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader
github.com github.com

I don't own this System and IIRC I only used Clover in one Circumstance where I couldn't boot from the main Drive, but that was a LONG time ago.

I just remember it could be a good Tool when you are in difficult Situations such as this one.

Not sure how it handles Secureboot, if that is a Requirement for you, though.
 
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