ASUS introduces its own IPMI card

[pxxls51]

the asus ipmi expansion card

[mikeyosm]

around £140 in the UK. For me at the moment it’s a total waste of money without a ‘special’ BIOS and all the cabling I should have received but didnt.

[twin_savage]

You just made me realize I missed something in my testing. I never changed the BMC jumper to disabled from it’s default enabled position when testing.

The BMC header’s functionality is/was inconsequential to me, I just wanted the other things the IPMI access would give me so I never bothered plugging it in (actually the motherboard I was using didn’t even have a BMC header so I had no choice).
It’s possible the card would have trouble with no BMC header plugged in and the jumper set to enabled; I’ll need to re-test.

[mikeyosm]

Let me know the outcome of that please. I’m still waiting for asus tech support to give me the special BIOS. Really want to test the AIC properly.

[mikeyosm]

I returned my Z690-F and swapped it for the ProArt Z690 which is on the compatibility list and same issue. Connect power lead, mobo turns on automatically but then turns off after 2 seconds. Cant turn it back on with the chassis power button. I have asked Asus if this mobo needs a special bios too.

To be honest I’m getting fed up with trying to get this to work. Asus have been no help so far on the Z690-F so I’m very close to giving up on all of this.

UPDATE

Bought a second IPMI card so now I have the full cable set.

Connected it to my Z690 ProArt board, BMC, SPI/TPM, USB, PCIe power and power switch. Board powers up, loads in to Windows 11 and device manager shows ‘code 28’ no driver loaded for IPMI interface. Other than the ASPEED and NIC driver, there is no other drivers for this card. So, I tried in Linux - sensors-detect - no IPMI interface found.

These cards are an absolute joke. So unless I still need a special BIOS for it, I’m completely stumped and probably will be retruning both cards.

Asus 1st line support are a complete waste of time also, continuously telling me to check the manual and drivers. Not happy.

[mikeyosm]

How about the TPM/SPI cable/adaptor that comes with the IPMI card? Maybe this needs to be connected to for the card to work and allow the motherboard to POST properly? I am not entirely sure that a special BIOS is needed for any of the Mobo’s on the compatibility list. Still waiting for Asus to confirm.