I have a supermicro Motherboard that i attempted to BIOS flash. Previously the machine booted fine, but since attempting to flash to 1.4b it hasn't booted. The golden image in v1.1. How do I revert it back to the golden image?
X12SPL-F Failing to boot after Bios
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In the IPMI page it will never reflect the new BIOS version. I haven't yet tried unchecking perserving the configuration.
I did find this handy site for finding older versions of supermicro's BIOS. Supermicro old files
I did find this handy site for finding older versions of supermicro's BIOS. Supermicro old files
Nuke the old config for flashing. Even if in theory contents of the configuration memory between bios versions may be compatible, in practice new bios can interpret some values differently. If you can access bios settings, load defaults and check if it solves the problem.
have you checked immediate update or on next boot ?
to update to 1.4b all BIOS (golden) are updated to 1.4b at startup,
if you see the blue UnitID LED flashing,
wait for completing this process.
I’ve tried both. The blue led blinked while it was doing the update and is now off. I’m starting to wonder if it’s bad hardware. It will run when I press the power button for about 30 seconds. No video comes up on the vga port or remotely via ipm. Time to read the manual if these boards still have speakers for beep codes.
why ? anyway. you have to AC power cycle after update,
have you Retail CPU or ES ? maybe BIOS 1.4 is not supporting your CPU.
ES CPU. The IMPI isn't reporting that the flash was successful. No matter what version i try, it won't go beyond 1.0. I tried a CMOS reset as well this morning
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I'm confused: you mean the system is running DURING the bios update?
I did this once with a x10 board and it messed up something in the bios or the intel me things making the system unbootable and unflashable.
I can't remember if it was booted the first time i tried it. Every time since it's been powered off and accessed via ipmi remotely.
the new BIOS version is updated on successfull POST.
BIOS 1.4 does not support ES CPU other than stepping D0.
what ES CPU do you have ?
I scraped everything available on Supermicro's site, so, doesn't look like it's something they ever posted. You might be out of luck unless you can get Supermicro to provide it to you via a support ticket or the likes.
I dont read the thread correctly, and only saw "boot troubles 1.4b"...
Then i updated an X12SPL-F yesterday with the EFI flash-tool to a new 1.5 revision, and it stuck after the update process on POST... only a "hard" BIOS reset helped.
The IPMI FW is updated too - version 01.01.45
If you use this mainboard in an workstation, the boot process time gives me some old days feeling, time enough for a cup of coffee.
Then i updated an X12SPL-F yesterday with the EFI flash-tool to a new 1.5 revision, and it stuck after the update process on POST... only a "hard" BIOS reset helped.
The IPMI FW is updated too - version 01.01.45
If you use this mainboard in an workstation, the boot process time gives me some old days feeling, time enough for a cup of coffee.
note the EFI tool can just upload the BIOS image to the BMC and restart the system to let the BMC do the BIOS flash job (UID blue led flashing)
i recommend update BIOS in the BMC-WebGUI.
Yeah, i saw that i had to type in the BMC username and password before bios filename... was quite different on older systems. I had still in mind that one requires a license to update BIOS via BMC GUI, but this is no more. But having to short the cmos reset pad (stopped boot process after a long time on "DXE - ready to boot", entering BIOS was not possible)? Whatever, thankfully it works again.
I dont't think the changes include the compatibility for these ES CPU's (a way to get rid of these...).
Thanks for the information.