I’m new to this forum, so please correct me if there is a sub-forum to ask.
Does anyone know the correct procedure how to use this jumper BIOS_RCVR? The gigabyte manual does say anything. I only found it on new intel boards. You have to put the ROM file on the flash drive. Now Gigabyte did not indicate any step. Do you need to rename or not or any particular structure (directory etc)? I tried different combinations but never saw that board trying to access the flash disk in all cases. I’m asking if I need to start the motherboard in some specific way so it starts reading ROM files.
There’s a bios recovery procedure described in the manual if you still have an uncorrupted boot block.
Otherwise GSM software allows to flash bios firmware:
Thank you very much for check ! Honestly I tried everything. 4 days already fighting and trying figure out. The GSM client always show a success but never actually do anything. The same story for IPMI, BMC Web UI.
Hence, I checked intel docs for jumper recovery, they indicate startup.nsh while Gigabyte renamed all files. So it is tough to figure out whether they need MBR or GPT or any special button pressing magic. I did four different flash drives and renamed all files, but still, I don’t see any read access from the flash when I switch positions. (by the way, if you know the default ssh password, please let me know, I don’t think they provide a root access but im sure it has default pass)
Regarding the warranty, I waited three weeks for shipment and then the CPU, so by the time I received the CPU, I was out of a 30-day guarantee… So sux… really.
Initially, the motherboard detected CPU and memory, but the Samsung NVME, board detected as Intel after reading the release note for BIOS mention that; Hence I upgraded BMC, and after BIOS to the latest B17 for MS33-AR0-rev after reboot, BIOS disappeared. After checking the RBU file, I noticed it contains an ME/Microcode bunch of other stuff, so the update process from BMC broke or corrupted a BIOS.
I managed to get initial BIOS and now I do see VGA output. I think the problem is not with jumper I think it has bug with USB , essentially they never detect USB device and new BIOS nukes VGA output. … I do see both issue reported in release note in BIOS so it looks to me BMC and BIOS half backed really. This the only way to read POST on this board…
Sorry, what I was saying is that all new BIOS brick the VGA out on this board and never post. So I manage to get the initial BIOS. Now I use a procedure from BMC and downgrade the BIOS, essentially re-enabling VGA output, but it does not post. ( It stops on the POST code I posted before)
Now I’m 100% positive that downgrade also downgraded the ME. Hence my question. Suppose I flip the BIOS_RCVR jumper and ME_RCVR jumper.
Question one for gigabyte server motherboard what file name it expects (for Gen4 c741 boards) ? (Gigabyte docs all over the place) Right now, I see BIOS Recovery on the screen; after 120 seconds, I see it led on the flash driver but no IO reading from the FLASH drive. I assume BIOS Recovery needs a particular file. I tried amphibious.rom, startup.rom, the file name in the zip from BIOS that Gigabyte provided. Added startup.nsh etc.
My second question is if you do BIOS_RCVR and ME_RCVR will that downgrade both BIOS and ME ? ( I did check the BIOS file from Gigabyte. It has embedded in the BIOS ME partition)
ME data partition has changes, that’s expected.
NVRAM has some new entries, that’s expected, too.
FD is identical to stock, DevExp1, ME code partitions are identical to stock, rest of bios region is identical to stock.
The system should be able to boot fine with this.
I’m sorry, but this doesn’t seem to be firmware related- and this ‘finding’ is consistent with the fact that you flashed a number of firmwares without significant changes.
It did only after I swap CPU. It looks like it doesn’t like QXP, the crazy part that initially F01 did boot with QXP but after I upgrade to F14 it nuked the system, I downgraded to F01 with ME jumper force upgrade, but that didn’t not help. Do you think QXP completely useless now ?
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If not, I’ll try it again.
