Supermicro

Search FAQ

Most popular FAQs

1.	Which key is to be pressed to enter Bios when the machine is connected via serial console (Board X9SCL-F)? We already tried "DEL", "F4", "F11"... but no go.
2.	I have a supermicro server, that stops at boot, with the msg SYSTEM INITIALIZING with BA code at the right.
3.	How do I enable Turbo mode to get the maximum Turbo mode speed on my X10DRi motherboard?
4.	When I enable secure boot in X10DRC-LN4+, it shows message "WARNING: CSM is Loaded! Disable the CSM in Setup. Repeat operation after Reboot to ensure UEFI Video (GOP) driver is operational.".
5.	I have a storage Chassis SC846BA-R1K28 and Mainboard X9DR7-LN4F did not start up anymore. Then I unplugged and replugged some SAS cables, and tried to locate which Disk slots are served by which cable. After pushing the power button it showed "supermicro"-screen with "System Initializing..." on the bottom and then did not do anything further. IPMI shows the message "System initializing... B7". Removing the Bios battery for some time did not solve the problem. I did not find an answer on the internet yet - could you please tell us what this means and how I can recover from this?
6.	I plug in 4GB of memory into my P8SAA board but Windows XP only shows 3GB of memory. Everything works fine but why does Windows shows only 3GB of memory?
7.	I noticed X8 DP series motherboard showing "ERST: Failed to get Error Log Address Range" message during the RHEL/CentOS 6.2,6.3 version while booting. What is this problem related to?
8.	I am using 4x K20 in 7047GR-TPRF (X9DRG-QF) but gets the error: !!!!PCI Resource ERROR!!!! PCI OUT OF RESOURCES CONDITION: Error: Insufficient PCI Resources Detected!!! System is running with Insufficient PCI Resources! In order to display this message some PCI devices were set to disabled state! It is strongly recommended to Power Off the system and remove some PCI/PCI Express cards from the system! To continue booting, proceed to Menu Option and select Boot Device or . WARNING: If you choose to continue booting some Operating Systems might not be able to complete boot correctly!
9.	Inquire about X10SAE BIOS options - What is ASPM mode L0/L0s/L1/L0sL1
10.	How do I create a bootable USB stick?

Latest FAQs

1.	Supermicro SYS-821GE-TNHR server dropped an H100 <span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: SimSun;">，i need fieldiag package (06/27/2025)
2.	Does X14SBW-TF motherboard support PCIe bifurcation? I do not see it in the motherboard block diagram. (06/27/2025)
3.	I have a server 1029P-WTRT with 8 SATA drives and 2 U.2 NVMe drives. I can see the 8 SATA drives in BIOS but cannot see the 2 NVMe drives in BIOS. The cables are well connected. What could be the root cause? (06/27/2025)
4.	How do I update my motherboard CPLD using SAA via OOB connection? (06/27/2025)
5.	Is there any Linux Utility I can use to check Individual Drive Status in my Intel VROC RAID Arrays? (06/27/2025)
6.	Is there any Linux Utility I can use to check Intel VROC RAID Status? (06/27/2025)
7.	I have a SYS-621H-TN12R with Intel VROC RAID1 setup with my 2x NVMEs. When checking the BIOS page for the VROC RAID Menu, we noticed that the RAID Volume rebuilds every time we reboot the server. We are running Debian 12 which is very similar in build to Ubuntu 22.04 (06/27/2025)
8.	SYS-420GP-TNR ; GPU -- PCIE LINK SPEED ISSUE ; PCIe link speeds are reporting as downgraded via lspci: Expected value 16GT/s, but detected 2.5GT/s I've performed the following troubleshooting steps: hard power cycle -- issue persists reseat gpus + cables -- issue persists check mellanox link speed -- full speed / only gpus affected reseat pcie cables -- issue persists (06/27/2025)
9.	ARS-210M-NR; Super R12SPD-A; Received system, tried to install Linux with UBS, but failed to find the hard drive with OS installed (06/27/2025)
10.	when we look into the AOM-TPM-9672V properties with tpm2-tools in Linux, we noticed the value of TPM_PT_VENDOR_STRING_3 is empty. Is this normal? (06/27/2025)