luckybob wrote on 2024-11-17, 22:59:
Check the board for a jumper. as I recall Supermicro still used a jumper to lock the bios and thus prevent anything from flashing a chip. It might also be in the bios settings, oddly enough. SM made good documentation, the manual should have detailed step-by-step instructions.
"Universal AGP" is woefully NOT VERY universal. Many AGP cards will fit and not work correctly. Also, when a board will boot from PCI but not AGP. The board is either physically defective. AND/OR the caps that feed the AGP slot need replaced. Once I confirm a working agp card, and its still horked, i start looking at caps. thats been my experence.
Thanks but I do not think that a jumper on the motherboard can prevent me to flash the bios on an external programmer.
Plus, I also used Uniflash and the process was successful.
Still I got the message checking nvram update failed.
Will look for this jumper anyway.
Edit: the manual talks about a JP6 to be disabled before bios recovery but I am not able to find it and the manual itself in jumper description jumps from 5 to 7…. No 6.
Tried the bios recovery method as well, it loads the bios and then I get 7 short beeps (repeating), that I guess is an error.
I am strongly convinced that the bios is not correctly loaded and this somehow prevents the AGP to properly work.