On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:46:15 -0700 (PDT)
Ryan VanRiper <ravanrip@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a supermicro X8DT6-F/DTE-F motherboard with a broken IPMI BMC controller (AFAICT).  The bios at POST sits for a very log time trying to "initialize IPMI" and eventually fails.  I have contacted supermicro tech support about reflashing the BMC IPMI software with one of their online images, but have been unsuccessful using the recommended yafukcs tool.  The tool gives the errors..
>
> Error in SendTimedImbRequest
> Error in Getting FMH Info
> Error in FirmwareInfo
>
> The supermicro techs gave up quick and simply said RMA it.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has had success using flashrom to reflash the Nuvoton WPCM450RA0BX chip that is on this board ?
>
> If so could you explain how and which programmer you used ?  I'm also interested in general approaches even if this has not been done before to try.  At this point I don't think I can make things any worse. 

IMHO it is unlikely that the flash of the BMC is shared with the normal
system. You could try to find the second flash chip on the board and
use an external programmer. That's what I would do if I could not RMA
it...

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner