[REQUEST] X10QBL Quad socket Supermicro Xeon E5/E7 mobo rejecting E7 (ES) CPUs.

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Good idea. Will do.

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Also for what it's worth:

- Pre-pre QS/ES C0 stepping (QEFU): Nothing yet. That's the ones I have.
- Pre QS/ES D1 stepping (QFJY): http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/QF/QFJY.html
- Retail stepping (SR1GL): http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SR/SR1GL.html

Not sure if this would help you in any ways but I'm mentionning these, just in case.

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BTW - BIOS R 1.0a.

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http://i.imgur.com/q6fy1M5.png

If you can interpret or guess what the changes are?

Thanks in advance.

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My bad, looks like lines 7 and 8 have changes.
I framed the wrong ones. Bleh, you still get the point. Can't be arsed to re-do them at the moment.

[DeathBringer]

CPUID=306Ex for Xeon E7-28XX/48XX/88XX v2 - Ivy Bridge-EX
CPUID=306Fx for Xeon E7-28XX/48XX/88XX v3 - Haswell-EX

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Okay so what I have here are the v2 - Ivy Bridge-EX.

CPUID=306Ex for Xeon E7-28XX/48XX/88XX v2 - Ivy Bridge-EX

I really don't need support for v3 Haswell-EX as these are extremely expensive (even as ES) on eBay.

Now what's next?

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Need to find BIOS v1.60 for HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 (P79), filename is SP70043.exe
Microcode in this BIOS:
306E4 - 418 - 08/08/2013
306E6 - 600 - 09/19/2013
306E7 - 70D - 05/29/2014
It supports QEFU:

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Yes I know, these 4 "QEFU" CPUs I got were taken out of a Proliant server.

It's just Supermicro boards BIOS and support are complete dogshit, but at least they work with with a standard +1000W PSU.

Should we hex-edit the Supermicro BIOS and use the microcode values you pasted then flash it? or...?

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Looks like HP has 306E4 - 418 (from 2013) while Supermicro has 306E4 - 428 (from 2014). Line 3.

The other 2 values are identical:

HP: 306E7 - 70D Supermicro: 306E7 - 70D. Line 1.
HP: 306E6 - 600 Supermicro: 306E6 - 600. Line 2.

Are we progressing yet?