$500 Quanta Dual Node Epyc Server - IT'S WORKING!

Robbed of my 5 seconds of fame by devclouds :( That's my QVL upload on archive lol. Oh well. Glad you at least got it to POST!

Me: i need to go to bed Craft Computing: uploads video about hardware i will never own perfect timing! btw. i love this kind of "trying random stuff to see what works"video format. 10/10 homelab experience gute nacht leute

Seeing you struggle with that system makes me appreciate how straightforward the Supermicro and Gigabyte servers are that I deal with the most.

shhh, dont share the numlock light post test trick with the young ones. do they even make keyboards with num lock lights on them anymore?

Well good news you got it working with the Naples CPU so at least you know that the units are in working order. Bad news, It is most likely that those units are on an older legacy BIOS version from when Naples first came out and this is why it will not boot with a Rome CPU as it simply doesn't know what those CPUs are. So your options at this point are find the highest Naples CPU you can find (highest was 7601 32-core 2.2Ghz-3.2Ghz), or try and bribe someone at Quanta to give you the last published BIOS and BMC firmware for that server.

We love to see it! Halfway-ish there... Just need a BIOS... that higher end Rome support... and a rebuild.

Looks like the motherboard is a “S5HF MB” and with bios “3A05.efib2” it supports a 7401P. There’s a geekbench result for it.

I bought a Gigabyte G292-Z20 (rev. 100) with an Epyc 7402P on ebay for 700€ a few days ago, I think it's a pretty good deal, and in an apocalypse scenario I can use it as an aeroplane with the amount of air those fans are moving.

Jeff, I have noticed that over the last couple videos you have gone from beer to mixed drinks. I am hoping the QuantaPlex stress is not causing this. Once you start shots, we are calling an intervention and restricting your access to ewaste. Hate to do it but we can't have you vomiting on the equipment. That just won't do.

I think Quanta manufactured some E-waste here by their discontinuation policy and severe hardware lockdowns. They clearly want to "encourage" customers to upgrade to whatever the latest model is, and enough of their customers must be okay with it because Quanta is clearly still in business, with the preferences in the aftermarket or homelab communities not accounted for. I imagine their customers want the newer versions because of the improved efficiencies of newer platforms and the certainty of business arrangements. Larger organizations don't want to get bogged down in maintenance hell and homelabbers aren't profitable for Quanta apparently. But congrats on getting those blades running again! That was clearly quite a journey, and Quanta doesn't appear to want to on help.

Congratulations!

I loved that Pointing and screaming ITS WORKING intro.... that was 100% me today. Although my issue was my own bad code from 6 months ago coming back to haunt me.

There's something lovely about a video that starts with success followed by "And here's how we got there." Also, it's because of guys like you teaching tech that I even do the num lock check, do you feel proud of yourself?

this was a fail but good intentions and due diligence in unlocking, i think it shows just how tough it can be to get decent server motherboards that you resorted to this solution and had to use the bombay sapphire to compensate - not the worst coping behavior and you still learned some things and shared the pain

I loved that I'm not the only one that uses the Num lock as a post indicator

She lives! Good job! And that is indeed a lovely ice cube.

Nice you got the blade system running, but the best part of the video was at the very end!

For quantum chemistry calculations i have built an Intel server blade PC. S2600TP board, 2x 2686V4 18 core cpu from e-bay. This board has all the connectivity what a desktop PC has but some with custom connectors. Also needs a separate 5V PSU for the system circuits. The cooling is a bit of an issue since the rectangular narrow ILM version of 2011. I made a water cooled system which i flooded and burned the first cpu slot. So bought another board and added the best possible coolers, two Dynatron T-318 full copper vapor chamber heatsinks with Delta blowers. BIOS files (4 of them) had to installed one-by one jumping the allowed version changes and the system config adjusted not to look for the default fans... which are jet engines... 3 of them. Currently having 4x16Gb ram suits perfectly for molecular structure optimization job utilizing all 36 cores continuously. Usually it runs for 1-2 days periods. For molecular frequency calculations more ram is needed, it depends on the molecule size but with the current amount of ram i can use only 10 cores. Next week i will upgrade to 128Gb which will utilize all (2x4) memory channels. I am also planning to replace the flooded cpu slot on the broken one. Already have the replacement slots. In this one i will use 2x2650v4 (5 USD for one piece... lol). I like in Intel that every bit is accurately described in manuals so it was easy to assemble the whole system.

Fingers crossed on any higher end CPU's, and overall nice to see keeping tech out of e-waste. but as you stated.. Quanta would have to step up to the plate and offer some "support".

So Funny thing about the cocktail I may have been on my local ABC store website looking at Gins and what I am going to pick up tomorrow. It is warming up outside and Gin season is upon us.