Hello y’All
I have a Supermicro H12SSL-CT motherboard with firmware 2.4 but the latest released version is 2.6a
I want to update the firmware, but my attempts so far have failed, I have tried superdoctor but it rejects the user name and password and I used the unique password on the box the motherboard came in.
Please help and tell me what worked for you
Leroy
There should be a DOS utility in the zip. Just download the bios flash disk from bootdisk.com and pretend it is the year 1999 and do it like they do in the…oops wrong song. Anyways, that should work.
I run an h11ssl and had similar issues.
when they released the h12 series they changed the method of firmware updating. it’s not the same.
well it includes a UEFI flasher now instead of a dos one, but it really is the same process. the package available from supermicro for the H12 even includes a README.txt with all the efi shell commands.
my point here is use the shell commands, not the IPMI or gui utility. you can even update the BMC and BIOS separately as long as you verify compatible versions. this is nice encase just one chunk is giving you issues.
Just log into the IPMI with ADMIN as a username.
The password should be the one printed on the box and on a sticker on the board maybe those don’t match?
In the ipmi management interface, you should be able to now update the BIOS and BMC firmware
that has never worked for me and i am staring at literally thousands of $ in supermicro stuff here. admittedly the newest item i have is 6 years old though, surely by now that feature is reliable.
Well, i only started out with X9 stuff so i have no idea about anything prior.
But with an activated license, that always worked for me unless the EEPROM is dead anyhow.
H12 is a change though, so that might be throwing up issues again.
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