Dell H310 Repeated flash Failure

I’ve been banging my head against this for hours. My Dell H310 was in IR mode this whole time and smart wasn’t being passed through. I tried flashing the firmware via Freedos and EFI and so far am running into a wall of anger and nothingness.

Steps I found online were :

Freedos:
Pull and Save SAS address (done)
megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin (fails, as the instructions say it will)
megarec.exe -cleanflash 0

Reboot into UEFI:
sas2flash.efi -o -f 6GBPSAS.FW (successful) Reboot to UEFI again
sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118it.bin (fails) - ERROR: Cannot flash IT firmware over IR Firmware!
Firmware Image Validation failed.

So I then try

sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118p7.bin (fails) - ERROR: Cannot flash IT firmware over IR Firmware!
Firmware Image Validation failed.

Then I try

sas2flash_p19.efi (sas2flash from the P19 folder of the LSI package) which fails same error.

I can successfully use

sas2flash_p19.efi -o -sasadd %sasaddress%

but at this point I’m stuck and my nas won’t boot.

What should I do next?

Edit: Still in IR mode, but the nas is alive!!! The urgency is greatly lowered at this point.

Added ‘helpdesk’ tag so people know you need help.

Thanks, Sorry I’m not super active lately and forgot about tags.

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It’s OK bro.

Glad to see you back.