Tyan S5512WGM2NR: No m1015 WebBIOS?

[lippy]

Tyan S5512WGM2NR: No m1015 WebBIOS? - SOLVED

As stated, Tyan S5512WGM2NR with the IBM m1015 card (new MB; fleabay card; I’ve got 4; tried all 4). When booting, I get into the LSI MegaRAID BIOS screen and press Ctrl-H for the WebBIOS. Quickly, a line appears “WebBIOS will be executed after POST completesâ€; the American Megatrends post screen is displayed; then a blank screen with a flashing cursor. I’ve left it like that for 15 minutes without it going any further, before I recycle the server.

The attached drives are being recognized by WHS v1 without a problem (passthrough).

Recommendations?

While I did not find any help in IBM's documentation; I found this in LSI’s manual:

NOTE: On systems that do not have the PS2 port, you must enable 'port 60/64
emulation' in the System BIOS to emulate USB as PS2. When this option is disabled on
this system, WebBIOS does not work.

This MB does not have a PS2 port; and I can’t find a setting in the MB BIOS that resembles this.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Lippy

 

[lippy]

It’s been a long evening…but I digress,

The fix in my situation is a BIOS upgrade to the motherboard. Please see the fixes for v.1.03:

- Fixed a LSI 9240-4i and 9280-8e RAID Card hang at POST issue
- Added support for 3TB UEFI boot device
- Added display device information during POST screen display
- Added support for Endless boot option
- Update CPU micro code
- Fixed a LAN PXE hang issue when both LAN’s are connected
- Modify memory display string from "Memory Slot0" to "Memory DIMMA0"
- Added 3TB SATA RAID support
- Fixed an Adaptec 2405, 5405 and 6405 RAID card hang at POST issue

I don’t go willingly into a BIOS flash, but as the LSI 9240-4i is the brother (or sister?) to the LSI 9240-8i (and my IBM m1015), I went there with a hope…

And it cost me the RAID 1 mirror of WHS v1 during the flash, but I didn’t have any data on it yet, so there is a bright-side. Better now then later.

Thanks to ALL of the posters who I’ve learned so much from.

Lippy

 

[tim9999]

BIOS Flash on TYAN

Good to hear it works...I am about to flash to v1.03 as well... and all the disclaimers at the TYAN site are a bit disconcerting...to paraphrase: "your on your own, if anything goes wrong during the Flash procedure" . I am setting up the S5512GM4NR for virtualization.