The IPMI on H8QGL is incompatible with OCNG BIOS, H8QGL boards with OCNG BIOS would fail to post if IPMI is enabled, so it usually needs to disable IPMI by jumper (JPB1) before using the OCNG BIOS.
But I like IPMI remote control functions as well, so I'm looking for if there is any method could let OCNG BIOS work together with IPMI.
Now, I think I have found a simple method that would probably work for it.
The detailed steps to enable IPMI on H8QGL with OCNG3 BIOS:
1. power off the system
2. remove the jumper cap from JPB1
3. power on the system and wait for several minutes
5. hot reboot the system (you will hear some whistling sound if the refclock was modified, just ignore it)
6. wait about 20 - 30 minutes (don't know why we should wait so long, seems to have something to do with DHCP)
7. ok, now IPMI should be ready for you
The manual of H8QGL said that connecting pins 1-2 of JPB1 is to enable BMC (IPMI) and pins 2-3 to disable it, while the behavior of completely removing the jumper cap is undocumented.
I'm not sure if this should work for all H8QGL boards, but it did work for me.
update:
1. seems we could omit step 6 if static IP address was set for IPMI.
2. sometimes the system would fail to hot restart, use IPMI reset instead.
But I like IPMI remote control functions as well, so I'm looking for if there is any method could let OCNG BIOS work together with IPMI.
Now, I think I have found a simple method that would probably work for it.
The detailed steps to enable IPMI on H8QGL with OCNG3 BIOS:
1. power off the system
2. remove the jumper cap from JPB1
3. power on the system and wait for several minutes
5. hot reboot the system (you will hear some whistling sound if the refclock was modified, just ignore it)
6. wait about 20 - 30 minutes (don't know why we should wait so long, seems to have something to do with DHCP)
7. ok, now IPMI should be ready for you
The manual of H8QGL said that connecting pins 1-2 of JPB1 is to enable BMC (IPMI) and pins 2-3 to disable it, while the behavior of completely removing the jumper cap is undocumented.
I'm not sure if this should work for all H8QGL boards, but it did work for me.
update:
1. seems we could omit step 6 if static IP address was set for IPMI.
2. sometimes the system would fail to hot restart, use IPMI reset instead.
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