X470D4U

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.

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.

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.

WORKAROUND!!!! X470D4U !!! UNPLUG THE MONITOR FROM THE BOARD!!!

I have had two of these mainboards and both behave in exactly the same way with regard to system hanging/freezing, loss of IPMI functionality. But I found a work-around that makes the IPMI/KVM functional.

!!!UNPLUG THE MONITOR FROM THE BOARD!!! then use the IPMI/KVM to view the console session it will function properly.

* i tried two different monitors, two different mainboards and same result. During the boot process ie before the bios screen if you are attached to the IPMI/KVM session the system will have all kinds of issues which i mention above.


BMC firmware 1.60
BIOS ver. P3.20

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** UPDATE!

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WoW, great of you to reply here, hope he sees this good news.