If I understand correctly @Mekw flashed the correct version of the BIOS already as that one has support for the 10G lan adapters which the BIOS we originally flashed does not, and it “just works” now!

I would speculate this is a custom board for Datto - a MB10-DS4 without the 1G Intel I210 and with 10G Intel X552 with RJ45 instead of SFP+.

Such combination does not exist officially as per Gigabyte: https://b2b.gigabyte.com/Comparison/Resu...,5761,5907,5908

We got it sold as MB10-DS1 and I am guessing the BIOS for that does not have support for the Intel X552? This way LAN do not work on DS1 BIOS however they work on DS4 BIOS as @Mekw confirmed in previous post.

So you think, you can flash DS4 BIOS too then, and no need to modify BIOS for either one of you guys from my end correct?

Exactly @Lost_N_BIOS , many thanks for the assitance it was that thread you point out that lead me to try the DS4 BIOS. So you sir are a star.

Exactly, without that thread we could have still been scratching our heads.

Thank you!

You're welcome! I almost didn't look around again, after spending an hour maybe trying to find a dump for DS0, DS1, DS4 with no luck at all.
Great, thanks for confirmation, sounds like that DS4 BIOS flash should fix up dimadima's board too then!

If you guys find any setting missing in BIOS, or see some in AMIBCP you want enabled that are currently hidden, I can do that for you!

Also, for the next poor guys that anything like this happens to, and maybe they don't want to crossflash, or they messed it up some other way, can one of you send me dump where the LAN is working with BIOS image so I can see LAN ID's being used.
That way I can find the location of these in this kind of BIOS, in case I need to help someone in the future with this model, or other Gigabyte servers boards with GbE too. I'd really appreciate it, and so might someone else I have to help in the future, thanks!

@Mekw did you get your real LAN MAC after flashing DS4 BIOS?

I did not...



Is there a best approach to flash? I used FB.bat with option [2] this time.

please use fb.bat [1/2/3/4] [k]
!! Notice, if your BIOS is formal version (F/R/P).
!! System will auto restore DMI data.
[1] = use FPT flash BIOS, Afudos flash ME. Please don't set ME Flash jumper.
[2] = use FPT flash BIOS and ME. Must set ME Flash jumper.
[3] = use AfuDos flash BIOS.
[4] = use AfuDos flash BIOS + ME region.
[k] = force to Keep previous DMI data.
 

should i try flash BIOS some other way? @Lost_N_BIOS

Yes I did, I just ran f.bat, flat no switches.

Maybe the way you did it last time flattened the DMI data and thats why you've got the weird data. On the plus side something easier to find in the bios and replace than the 00:00's...

interestingly, the PXE set-up shows correct MAC of my LAN1.





updated BIOS+ME from BMC... same result

updated by running F.BAT (as you did), which executes: afudos image.bin /P /B /N /X /K /L ...same resut

i have *not* updated the BMC itself - do not think this would do anything to onboard LAN? or should i, just in case?

i am out of ideas what else to try for now. attached this DS4_F06 BIOS dump (FPT -d ...)

@Mekw maybe you could also attach your DS4_F11 BIOS dump just in case?

the issue seems to be display/visual only!

both LAN work, and router sees their real MACs.




@Mekw - i am curios, do you see correct MACs both in BIOS and on the BMC web admin page?

Yes I do see correct MACs, but I also get 4 nics. Two of which don't have the MAC Addresses, in your screenshots above in the IPMI you seem to only have 2.

But at least you are running :-)

confirming the now obvious

ix0@pci0:3:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x00001458 chip=0x15ad8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
 
ix1@pci0:3:0:1:	class=0x020000 card=0x00001458 chip=0x15ad8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
 
 

even the host OS (FreeBSD) sees correct LAN MAC, so strange why BIOS/IPMI do not show...

ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 3.2.12-k> mem 0xfbc00000-0xfbdfffff,0xfbe04000-0xfbe07fff irq 34 at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci4
ix0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors
ix0: Ethernet address: 1c:1b:0d:96:11:c7
 
ix1: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 3.2.12-k> mem 0xfba00000-0xfbbfffff,0xfbe00000-0xfbe03fff irq 37 at device 0.1 numa-domain 0 on pci4
ix1: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors
ix1: Ethernet address: 1c:1b:0d:96:11:c8
 

I do not have a 10G switch or card, but both LAN get the full 1Gig so seems to be working fine (ran netperf)

@Mekw - do you see correct LAN ID's in your BIOS screen? If yes, please send me a FPT -d dump, then I can fix for dimadima. I think maybe his DMI was cleared initially via the web interface flash to DS1 BIOS, then any subsequent flash with the /K switch only keeps the zero'd out LAN info

@dimadima are you wanting to provide the bin mate? Or you happy running?

Also - told thread tangent. Do you have a spare stick of non-ecc ddr4 you could test on the board? I am wondering whether we need to use ECC now we know it's not the motherboard we bought.

@Mekw - if it’s not too much of a bother pls post a dump of the BIOS. I cannot be sure something else may not be broken so would be good to have it.

I am not sure I am following - this board only takes ECC Registered