I learned recently that, regardless of the versioing, it's VERY
important with SuperMicro to check the BIOS date.
Much more important than I'd thought. As in, that's the real release
info on the BIOS.
gerry
Steve Cousins wrote:
----- "Chris Samuel" <[email protected]> wrote:
The compute nodes are using SuperMicro H8DM8-2 based
with 32GB of ECC RAM.
Hi Chris,
I had MCE crashes on a Supermicro system (quad Xeon quad-core 2.4 Ghz)
that was driving me nuts for quite a while. It would take a couple of
months to crash which doesn't sound bad but it was a real pain. I bought
the machine from ASL and they worked with Supermicro to fix a microcode
issue.
The reason I mention this is that at least in this case, the BIOS
version was same before I ran the update and after.
Here is part of a message I got from ASL:
Note that you will be updating the BIOS from version 1.0b to 1.0b. In
Supermicro wisdom, they released several updates using the same
revision number.
After updating my 1.0b BIOS to the new 1.0b the machine has been running
solid since Christmas.
So, if you have two machines, one that crashes and one that doesn't,
check the dates of the BIOS's even if the BIOS versions match.
I hope this helps.
Steve
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