SUPER MICRO SP3 MBD-H11SSL-I bulk

Was expecting a brand new motherboard, not something used, with indications of the previous owner not being the best with handling and using. Grime, thermal paste and dirt were evident on the board. Not trusting a secondary motherboard to mission critical applications.

Mine came with Rev 2.0b bios. So 2nd gen Rome cpu worked OOB. I am deducting 1 star because the -i version doesn't come with HBA. And you cannot passthrough the mini sas ports to vm in vsphere.

Motherboard was shipped from Nspire; I received a version 2.0 board with BIOS 2.0a. The minisas-HD breakout cables where not included, but I was expecting that, as this appears to be an OEM package. You can find the cables on Amazon or the 'bay. You'll need them if you want to hook up more than 8 SATA drives. I had a lot of trouble with a prior super-micro board - the dual socket EYPC platform. This one posted on the first attempt. It did take about 30 seconds to show the screen on the first boot. Specs: MB: MBD-H11SSL-I-O CPU: AMD EPYC 7452 Ram: 256 GB; 32x8 at 2666 mhz. Running ESXI 6.7u3. I had zero issues updating the BIOS to 2.0b and the Ipmi firmware to 1.52. Note however that I used the ipmi interface to do this; otherwise, I believe you need to use the UEFI shell. Issues: 1) The MB did not like my Noctua NF-P14s. It keep spinning them up and down. I gave up and went into ipmi and set the fans to max, instead of tweaking the thresholds. 2) I got confused by ipmi not finding my Samsung 970 EVO SSD NVMe, and thought I had somehow installed the drive wrong. Well, that's because its not on the supported hardware list and so won't report it's temperature. Everything else was fine, so chalk that one up to user error. All in all, this is a pretty nice board. While the gigabyte workstation board has more features (built in 10g SFP+ for instance), it's pretty hard to track down a rev 2.0 board and it costs noticeably more as well.

I can't get to display BIOS or anything! I did not get rev 2.0, IPMI does not detect the real amount of CPU Cores and RAM modules does not use the full amount of ranks... How do i Upgrade to rev 2.0 using IPMI? Also, I have tried setting up the RAM modules as specified in manual in both ways for rev1 and rev2. The server runs but it does not display anything. How do you fix this?

I would highly recommend anyone who buys one of these super micro boards send it back if you don't get a version 2.0, as I did. Also they have a very high failure rate with bad ram slots. I have more than one of these boards, and this one boots fine with 4 dimms, but wont start with 8 dimms. The version 2.0 board I have works flawlessly. I've swapped CPUs, RAM and power supplies so it has to be bad slots. Unfortunately I only discovered the issue a year later when I wanted to upgrade from 128GB to 256GBs of ram. Now I have to buy a new board as this 1.3 version is junk.