On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
I gave on the SiperMicro quite a while ago. Not because of BIOS, but because of hardware engineering flaws. Which at least manifests itself with system boards for AMD CPUs. These (AMD) boards work reliably for only 2-4 years, after that they die. Not all of them, but about 50% of SuperMicro AMD server and mostly workstation boards (I have no experience with their low end desktop boards if they exist) are dead after 3-4 years
Huh. I have a bunch of SuperMicro boards with AMD CPUs, and have had only one die completely, and that was a DOA that I returned before putting into production.
Are you saying dead-dead, like completely unusable, or sorta dead, where you get spurious and unexplained errors?
--keith