X470D4U

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   This motherboard is very unstable. Try disabling device inventory in BIOS, for me it works better after doing that.

And for the watchdog, i found that Linux kernel try to load sp5100_tco module but it has to load ipmi_watchdog module.
With the good module, watchdog works fine.

Also something I don't understand is on one of my card i have the choice for network interface between eth0 and eth1 with a new "bonding" menu for bond0. And I don't have these settings on the 2 other cards.

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Mino Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2019 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mino Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: X470D4U Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 1:33pm
	This motherboard is very unstable. Try disabling device inventory in BIOS, for me it works better after doing that. And for the watchdog, i found that Linux kernel try to load sp5100_tco module but it has to load ipmi_watchdog module. With the good module, watchdog works fine. Also something I don't understand is on one of my card i have the choice for network interface between eth0 and eth1 with a new "bonding" menu for bond0. And I don't have these settings on the 2 other cards.

mgittelman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27 Aug 2019 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote mgittelman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 1:19pm
	I'm having the exact same problem. Updated to BIOS 3.1 and BMC 1.6. I am however able to remote in and choose my boot device manually. If I do not, I get stuck on "Update FRU System device" Doesn't always happen though. Sometimes I reboot and everything works fine. Flakey.

Mino Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2019 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mino Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 12:22am
	As you can't edit the posts, i'll just post after these : 2 other things 1) The screens keeps blinking very fast while during POST, like at least 50 times, until the OS is really loading. 2) The hardware watchdog is disabled : [ 478.225346] sp5100_tco: SP5100/SB800 TCO WatchDog Timer Driver [ 478.225437] sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Using 0xfed80b00 for watchdog MMIO address [ 478.225462] sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled And there is no documentation about how you enable it, and I didn't find anything parsing BIOS and IPMI menu.

Mino Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2019 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mino Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 9:39pm
	Two things : 1) Each time you reboot the server, the BMC is also rebooted, so if you want for example to access the BIOS settings, you can't because the remote session is reinitialized and thus you can't press the DEL button. This way the onyl way to access the BIOS settings is going on the server with your screen and keyboard and plug them in. Can you tell me what is the purpose of IPMI/Remote session ? 2) I found that unchecking the "Enable inventory support" option in the BIOS let the server boot without problem. So inventory option must be disabled and is useless now.

Mino Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2019 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mino Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Aug 2019 at 8:23pm
	Hello there, I Wanted to say I'm very disappointed with the X470D4U motherboard. I own 3 of these, and go from problems to problems since I purchased them. I use them with Ryzen 5 2600 processors and 2x16 GB RAM. First i had BMC and BIOS version 1.50. The RAM wasn't recognized well, the web GUI was unstable., there was keyboard problems when not in Qwerty mode, and clearing CMOS didn't work. Also, one of the motherboard didn't boot at all after 2 weeks of use and had to be changed by reseller by another new one. So I upgraded BMC to 1.60 and BIOS to 3.10 to see if things could get better. Now this is worst. The motherboards get stuck on "Update FRU System device" if I don't unplug my Ethernet cards (Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro). These cards were working flawlessly before the update. Also now when you reset the computer, this also reset the IPMI half of the time. So all BIOS and BMC are buggy and i never saw this before on professional hardware. I already lost dozens of hours trying to make these motherboards work with pluging/unpluging components and starting/restarting and now i'm just thinking of throwing them away and buy another brand hardware.