Tyan S8030GM2NE

[tunatoksoz]

Have you found a way of resetting the BMC password? I got a S8036m2ge and I'm having the same issue after first-time login. And making things worse, the 7C13 CPU seems not to be working and I am only seeing BMC logo at boot time

I did add the users on bios, I think. It was a bit confusing there because I thought It did add the password, but it didn't I set something relatively short, but had symbols, numbers, and letters in it.

 

[RolloZ170]

I got a S8036m2ge and I'm having the same issue after first-time login.

some BMC cut the PW lenght. try to enter only 16 or 20 chars...(just a guess)

 

[rsljdkt]

Some update:
While researching for the UART I found out ch341a and test clip so I thought I'd give it another try before sending it back. I flashed the BMC with the one (v3.0) from Tyan's website using NeoProgrammer. After a few tries the BMC is fixed. Now I got a heart beat and IPMI !! So happy with this experiment.

However, I already have everything installed with H12ssl. Now I have to decide if I want to save some money with Tyan...

how did you flash the BMC .ima file? seems it's a compressed format, did you extract it first and how?. I have a similar issue (BMC LED always solid color after power cable connected, after power on, it takes longer time than usual to show BIOS screen in the VGA port, the OS can boot),

 

[RolloZ170]

how did you flash the BMC .ima file? seems it's a compressed format, did you extract it first and how?

read the included Manual update BMC user guide.pdf

 

[rsljdkt]

read the included Manual update BMC user guide.pdf

Thanks.
I made a mistake, the 80300103.ima file should be actually a raw file (not compressed), I was checking the size inside the v300 zip file in Windows Explorer.
In the builtin EFI shell, I flashed the ima file using the socflash.efi, the BMC works now.

 

[flobert]

I know, EPYC is not a beast of low power draw, but i'm interested in that board (S8030GM2NE-2T with 64MB BMC chip) with a small EPYC for example with an 7D12 or a 7282. What idles do you reach in such a scenario? What is possible in terms of power consumption and optimizing?

 

[hmw]

I know, EPYC is not a beast of low power draw, but i'm interested in that board (S8030GM2NE-2T with 64MB BMC chip) with a small EPYC for example with an 7D12 or a 7282. What idles do you reach in such a scenario? What is possible in terms of power consumption and optimizing?

Depending on amount of RAM & nvme devices, you’re probably not going to get much below 50W ~ 60W. I have the board with 256GB of RAM, 6 x NVMe and 4 x SATA devices, a couple of CX-4 cards and a 7502p. The idle is 140W. For comparison, my X11-SCL-iF idles at 25W with a E-2126 and 32GB.

The Tyan is in a 4U case with 6 case fans and a heatsink fan. If you use yours as a workstation with fewer fans, NICs, NVMe devices and less RAM - and you lower cTDP way down (you can’t lower beyond 150w I believe) you should be able to get the idle draw lower. But even the base motherboard & CPU with minimum RAM will still have that 55W idle draw.