TWO AMD Epyc Servers for $500!

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So Quanta will be a fine addition to my list of "never buy or even look at"

Did you notice the CONSOLE SELECT SW (lower part of the screen at 13:13)? Options are BIOS or BMC. I would guess it's set to BMC right now. Maybe switching to BIOS will give you access to the bios that you want.

"don't use any cpus we don't recommend. also, we're not gonna tell you which cpus we recommend."

Put a GPU into each slot. My Asrock AM4 server board has this same issue. You can disable the onboard VGA which connects to the ASPEED BMC. Get a dummy plug into a port on each GPU and I bet it might post

That "dead" memory channel coming back was the ultimate "it works at my place" or "it works for me"...

This is why my homelab is all Dell PowerEdge. Plug the service tag into their support site and you get ALL the manuals, drivers, and information you need, even the build sheet for your unit's factory configuration. The only things they seem to lock down behind an account are their XC series, but those are just rebadges of other models so you just have to look up the equivalent regular model. HP almost got it right, but they constantly break their support pages and practically disowned everything made before the split.

In the video you tried a Naples CPU. Have you tried a Rome or Milan CPU? The firmware ("BIOS") on those systems contain one or more AGESA packages. Each AGESA is for only one generation. I don't know how Quanta does it (I've only worked with Quanta systems with Intel CPUs) but other barebones manufacturers often will have two AGESA in their firmware. e.g. so you could only use a Naples or Rome, unless you reflashed a different supporting version, then you could use a Rome or Milan CPU. When Milan came out, we had the fun time of having to install a Rome just to flash, then remove it and install the final Milan. First gen Epyc boards didn't have enough flash memory to hold an image with both AGESAs, so they were Naples only. tl;dr: Try a Rome and a Milan CPU to check for compatibility.

Nice shirt Jeff! 😉 Looking sharp! That's too bad about the BMC! I hope the community comes through!

The Quanta T22HF-1U is a 1U rackmount server manufactured by Quanta Cloud Technology Inc. It supports up to 400GbE networking bandwidth in x16 PCIe 5.0 slots, and has enhanced serviceability with tool-less, hot-swap designs. The server is NEBS compliant for Telco/5G data center deployments, and liquid cooling is supported with up to 385W CPU TDP. Might need some Verizon/ATT server guys to chime in...

This is the sort of content I've been missing. "Bought this... and now I'm drinking..." sort of things.

This makes me appreciate my old Supermicro servers even more. Standard cables, standard board holes, standard behavior, straight forward BMC (well, as far as bmcs go anyway) everything just works.

Some things: 1. Quanta is a vendor for HyperScaler companies. Meaning Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Meta, etc. This is typical of a quanta machine. 2. Are you absolutely sure these blades support AMD EPYC 7601 CPUs? Those are 180W TDP CPUs and are power hungry. 3. What wattage are those PSUs rated for? Typically, PSUs need to be 2-3x more powerful than CPU TDP (180 x 2 or 180 x 3). Then multiply that times 2. You have two nodes. Have you tried plugging in both PSUs? It's possible it wasn't configured for Single PSU use and machines won't boot unless both PSUs are present. 4. Quanta removes documentation due to the fact they mostly only sell to larger hyperscalers. 5. Do the nodes get IPs for IPMI? You have the BMC yes. But each node ALSO gets it's own IPMI as well. Try looking into that. 6. Do you have any storage plugged in? 7. Remove all RAM except for 1 DIMM. See if that makes a difference. That's all I can think of honestly. Oh. Last point. You get what you pay for....

Dude likes blades so much his rack features a convenient side mounted blade to defend the internal blades

If you archive the stuff on quanta's site now, in a few years you'll be glad you did

A bat'leth on your server rack? It's a server blade to go with your blade server.

What you accomplished was keeping my attention and doing the tech stuff that I would like to do myself. Thanks for the video!

I bought a Quanta Server T42S-2U on ebay and can confirm I feel the same pain :). I was able to install a skylake cpu with ecc and was able to boot the node and use IPMI to reset the bmc password. in my example I was only able to boot once I had both cpu sockets (of one blade) installed with a genuine intel cpu. ES or QS was not working as was only one cpu. If you want to have a look at something on that system let me know I can see what I can do. as for your blade I guess that usb and vga are disabled (which is something a hypervisor would request) so getting into the bios here would be ..... a challenge. As for documentation, the best option would be way back machine. also my system had different names for the blade (which had documentation) and the chassis which had less so try to see what the blade name is and google on that (tip might be a part list of the chassis part number).

CLabRetro here on youtube here has a knack for getting into BMCs, but he's usually getting into older servers.

Goddamnit Jeff, you beat me to this! I was researching this 3 months ago to house some of my extra 7451's. If you need, I ended up getting the Quanta QVL for this from the support team. It only shows support for the 7xx2 series, but it does have other information, so I never ended up buying.