Supermicro X9's and year 2021

rvassar

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Just a quick heads up for those of you running some of the Supermicro X9's and haven't tried going into the BIOS setup in several months... There's apparently a bug in the v2.3 BIOS that will prevent you from entering the BIOS setup if the hardware clock is past 12/31/2020 or some such. You get a blue screen with the code "AB" in the bottom right corner. There is a v2.3a BIOS out that corrects the problem. I have successfully updated my X9SCL.

The temporary workaround: Enter the EUFI shell, type "date 01/01/2020", reboot and enter the BIOS setup. Yes it's really that simple.
 
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