UBU/UEFI tool will inform you of GOPs on the bios, if theres any on it, its not always there.
That ME FW is indeed the SPI Flash Override for protected range.
Further advance on this and tryouts requires safety measures for recovering the SPI.
Dont remember well, but i think there is a user experience with this unpopulated jumper PINs with success, earlier this year or last ending year, i think also was a Dell server motherboard class.
update: out of curiosity i got an rtx 3080 to try in the server. score passed from 8k-10k with intel arc to 11k with rtx 3080. then i edit fan profile and lowered them from 80% (around 14k rpm) to 15% (around 4900 rpm).
after that score on superposition passed from 11k to 12.5k .
on 4k optimized i got 11k too…
i lowered again fan to 10% and got a score of 13k loool
strange is that i have 2x750 watt in non redundancy, so i sould be able to get almost 1kw of power from both, but looks like it’s not.
while scoring with intel arc im able to get gpu utilization to 99% and a 190watt power draw.
with the rtx 3080, i got average gpu usage of 50% and some spike to 70% with a gpu power drain of 310 watt.
now there can be just 2 possible problem cause.
im sure intel arc has some problem since it score different every run i do.
nvidia score always almost the same score, but or cpu has too low frequency, or psu arent able to make server push more power.
for psu i dont get any warning from server lcd for too much power consumption…
so in the end i dunno if cpus are too slow or psu is too poor in wattage.
hi i bring up this thread, because new bios version come out, and without unprotect the old bios im not able to flash the new one without losing the modification i made for nvme and resizable bar.
anyone in here is able to remove flash firmware protection and maybe give me an hint on what fpt file i need to use ?
hi, I want to know where the R730 bios chip is, I can’t find it on the motherboard. I want to backup and mod it. Hope you can give me a picture of it location, thank you.
hi before backup bios update to latest version 2.17.0.
after that u need to remove completely the mainboard as the bios is in the back of it.
there is an hole, but it has plastic cover around it (not visible) that will melt when heating up the 16 pin bios chip.
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Hello! Could you share the new bios 2.17.0 which support nvme?I cannot find.
You can publish the bios file to GitHub,I think so many people need it. Thanks!
@PrestarLin
Usually, users won’t share bios files, from a dump origin, containing their own, specific system info, sn, mac etc… perfectly understandably…
Unless they they have the trouble of wiping it out.
Do your own dump and mod it according the guide, present in the forum.
hi im still with 2.16.0. in a while ill update to 2.17.0 and ill post bios here
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thanks！please@me when you post 
not the official bios…i need the up’s moded bios that support different nvme… the offical one just support a little
keep in mind that for flashing modded bios, u need external programmer as bios flashing is locked.
if u have external programmer, u can flash bios 2.17, then save dump with programmer and i can edit it for u.
after that u flash it back.
sorry，i dont have the bios programmer firmware，i am not beside my r730…i
plan go home last month to flash it
but u still need programmer to flash it, because as written before bios flash is locked.
ok,i know because the r730 is in the ddl,i will try to flash it by programmer.
im working on unlocking bios write protect.
One Of: BIOS Lock, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0xE9, VarStore: 0x1, QuestionId: 0x1A1, Size: 1, Min: 0x0, Max 0x1, Step: 0x0 {05 91 FC 10 FD 10 A1 01 01 00 E9 00 10 10 00 01 00}
0x482A5 One Of Option: Disabled, Value (8 bit): 0x0 (default) {09 07 C1 10 30 00 00}
0x482AC One Of Option: Enabled, Value (8 bit): 0x1 {09 07 C0 10 00 00 01}
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cant find any jumper on the motherboard. there is some write, but it has no jumper pins.
also flash bios from idrac need to have good bios file. u cant flash .bin or .rom or .hdr with it.