[Request] Thinkstation S30 Ivy Bridge Support

[N00b-un-2]

Please add Ivy Bridge CPU support to this BIOS 

https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/think...361usa.zip

There are apparently two different machines being sold as the Thinkstation S30, the 43XX series which support Ivy Bridge (Xeon E5-26XX V2 CPUs) and the 05XX series (which I have, only supports E5-26XX V1 cpus)

[DeathBringer]

Post screenshots of first (CPU) & third (Mainboard) tabs of CPU-Z with current CPU.

[N00b-un-2]

Post screenshots of first (CPU) & third (Mainboard) tabs of CPU-Z with current CPU.

might take a little bit, it's running macOS 10.13.2 and all of my SATA ports are populated and set up as a massive RAID0+Fusion drive.  Is Windows to go still a thing, or did M$ bail on that idea?  I might be able to bootcamp the SSD portion of my fusion drive, but I'm going to need to make a Time Machine backup first.

[DeathBringer]

Use Windows LiveCD
BTW: Tell exact model number

[N00b-un-2]

Use Windows LiveCD
BTW: Tell exact model number

In the process of building out a Windows To Go USB.  Stand by...

[N00b-un-2]

Use Windows LiveCD
BTW: Tell exact model number

My computer model number is Thinkstation S30 M1-M 0568-47U.  Serial Number is MJPPLLH if that helps.  I've also included the .txt report from CPU-Z just in case.  I'd really rather not have to reboot into Windows again as every time I do, it borks the bootloader.  The UEFI implementation on this workstation is wonky, anytime you boot an OS, it adds an entry to the EFI boot list (without a menu in BIOS to adjust said boot list).  Also, fun fact: it REQUIRES the first boot entry to be named either "Windows Boot Manager" or "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" or it will refuse to boot on its own, throwing a super un-helpful 1962 error.  In order to fix my bootloader after booting Windows (or Redhat for that matter) I have to boot another Linux distro, eg; Ubuntu and create a dummy entry in EFI, eg;

sudo efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -l '\EFI\CLOVER\CLOVERX64.efi' -L "Windows Boot Manager"

but anyway...

[DeathBringer]

Make BIOS backup by Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit 2.0.
Did you tried to flash BIOS for ThinkStation S30 (type 4351, 4352)?
Have you hardware programmer to recover BIOS?

[N00b-un-2]

Make BIOS backup by Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit 2.0.

No such luck

[DeathBringer]

Try to set custom size: 8192K & 16284K

[N00b-un-2]

Try to set custom size: 8192K & 16284K

I tried dumping it with a bunch of different settings.  Let me know if this works.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UM7o7yF...sp=sharing