Thanks for the firmware provided by blackbeardever from chiphell forum
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Has someone here tested that new firmware here and could provide a forum download mirror?
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Does anyone understand why ASRock Rack isnāt supplying firmware they themselves created for a product on their own website?
Doesnāt help that they stopped responding to any of my inquiries 
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Not sure what the ones under the āSpecialā folder are, but I can get you whichever one youād want/need there
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Are the special editions maybe the stuff with (or without) the five eyes backdoors hardcoded into them 
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Hi, where are this FWs from? Can you share the newest one?
I am highly interested in downloading/mirroring those firmwares, as I cannot find them in the AsRockRack site. And more importantly, are they safe to flash?
Besided that, I need to buy the card to expand my workstation capabilities with IPMI features, but I need to ask any of the buyers in this thread if the card came with full-height pci bracket or only the low-height one, as the later is not compatible with my case.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers.
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is PAUL dead now that Pi KVM is the hot new stuff?
On one hand, PiKVM is a toy compared to this.
On the other hand, Asrock donāt look to be providing proper support for their $300AUD card.
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+1, itās ridiculous that Asrock arenāt providing the firmware on their site.
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I still would like ASRock Rack PAUL to get proper firmware updates for the various bugs.
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ASUSā IPMI Card only works paired to ASUS motherboards with special BIOS versions, on its own not even the web interface is accessable
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PAUL also functions as a 2D dGPU, PiKVM does not. I think most current AM5 motherboard designs are horrible for DIY home server builds, AM4 still rocks here (but not the APUs) and there a 2D dGPU ist still very helpful. Note Iām only considering platforms where ECC memory can be easily used.
I commented about that in some PiKVM videos but was just met with disbelief why Iād also want dGPU functionality. Have people forgotten the period late 2020-early 2022?
- Popular AM4 motherboards function better/more stable than stuff from ASRock Rack. Iāve been testing a system with an ASUS ProArt X570-CREATOR WIFI, 5750G, 128 GB ECC UDIMM Micron, Iāve put it through any torture/bug-provoking test I could think of and this motherboardās absolute crash counter is still 0.
But that system hasnāt seen a Broadcom product yet. Presently the only thing that letās me encounter bugs reliably is installing a Broadcom HBA from the line 9400, 9500 or P411W-32P
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Do you have access to the current firmware for this?
Got this reply back from Asrock Rack via their tech support form, pretty quickly actually.
Still, why is it not just publicly listed?
Could you be so kind as to get that version 1.09 and relay it?
I seem to be on ASRock Rackās naughty list ever since I tried to get them to fix a long list of bugs with the X470D4U.
I dont have access to their firmware archive anymore, but thats due to ProtonMail having a incredible horrible search feature and me migrating to MailCow. So there might be a mail or two lost.
Anyways, I asked my Distributor if he might help, hopefully he is still around and might help us. As soon as newer Firmware hits me, I will be updating you.
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Good Morning, I got a positive reply and Im happy to report that Firmware 1.10 is now available on our repository.
For everyone looking for it, you can find it here:
Hope this helps, big thanks going to my Distributor who is making this possible with his swift support.
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By any chance, amongst the other discoveries, would any one of you might be able to give intel on the following:
- I have a chassis intrusion switch in my case, and I feel like I saw the AR PAUL had a CASEOPEN# pin on the AuxHeader2ā¦ would GPIOZ0 be its ground?
- I noticed on the AUXHEADER1 the presence of NCSI pins (Network Controller Sideband Interface ?), are they exploitableā¦ should I even want to try tbh at this point?
- But more importantlyā¦ GOD in the machine, I have a supermicro chassis. With the redundant pair of PSUs and PDB that goes with it. WITH A PM_BUS cable! Same connector and same function supposedly as the PSU_SMB1 on the ARPAUL, but only 3 cables instead of 5 (no 3.3v or ground, but the ātalkingā cables are there). Why no workie? Is there a way to get them to talk and be friend, or theyāll keep being snob roommates?
(edit: I do realise that last one is a VERY long shot, but if anyone had walked that road before and solved it for themselves, thatād be great)
All in all, the lack of actual proper documentation is extremely both frustrating and disappointing.
If anyone can answer these, we could give ACTUAL use to the asrockrack paul, beyond what you can achieved out of the box with a PiKVM, some dupont cables, a NVS310 and a displayport to hdmi adapter.
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Update: I managed to establish some kind of contact with someone at ASRockRACKās support and just sent a detailed list of requests for information. Iāll update you all if/when I hear something useful back.
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