Posts made by Jiaheng Wang

• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Willy Tarreau Hi I forget to tell you that after trying many times of different version of EDK2, I figured out that geerlingguy may be using the version of 2.06. Currently I'm using the 2.06 edk n...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  12/6/23, 11:32 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Willy Tarreau If you use the 32MB image, you can just overwrite the whole chip, no worries.

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  Jiaheng Wang
  12/4/23, 2:28 PM
• Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F8222CF4

  A new MMC will be released this week. May be you can get it from staff in advance. The new 2.09 MMC will let you to use BIOS on carrier by setting JP27-29, maybe that can solve your problem.

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/28/23, 5:17 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Ruler of COM @Rebecca Cran Thanks for all your information. I've got the document for DB40-HPC and found that the pin layout is indeed different from the green version of DB40. Now I've successful...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/13/23, 7:18 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Tu Ken Thank you for your quick reply. But the manual from your link is for the green version of DB40 board, It seems that the black version is different? From this manual the pin layout is the sa...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/7/23, 3:22 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  Since I updated the bios to 2.09 and meet many flaws. So I decieded to temporarily downgrade my edk2 firmware to 2.04. Because I cannot peform the downgrade via Capsule, I tried the following metho...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/6/23, 2:24 PM
• Cooler?

  @Philipp Krause  Yes, the stock cooler may be difficult to handle the heat with more than 64 cores. If you want to use air cooler, maybe 4U is recommended. On my system, I'm currently using a...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/2/23, 12:16 PM
• CPU Replacement

  @Willy Tarreau I met your situation, too. But Unfortunately, I just can't downgrade firmware from 2.09 to 2.04 using Capsule. I'm tring to use the bios on the carrier by setting some Jumpers on the...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/2/23, 12:06 PM
• CPU Replacement

  @Willy Tarreau You can reffer to this document: https://www.ipi.wiki/pages/aadk-docs?page=firmware_Flashing-EDKII-SCP.html And the newest firmware can be found on Adlink's github : https://github....

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/2/23, 3:16 AM
• Unable to boot from Carrier BIOS by setting JP27-29

  Recently I try to let my AADK to boot from carrier bios (Because it is easy to reflash using a programmer). According to the User Manual of carrier, setting JP29 & JP28 as 1-2,  and JP27 t...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/1/23, 12:22 PM
• CPU Replacement

  @Willy Tarreau Conclusion: This is actually a firmware issue. After update to the latest release of edk2 (v2.09.100.00 on 20231031), Now my Q80-30 can running on all core at 3.0GHz now, and the GB5...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  11/1/23, 8:48 AM
• How to install Debian GNU/Linux?

  It seems that the efivarfs of AADK is not writeable in OS. I also dont't know why. My solution is just `umount efivarfs` before installation.(you can do that on a "try Ubuntu or Debian" environment...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  10/31/23, 10:54 PM
• CPU Replacement

  @Willy Tarreau I also do some test, I found only a portion of cores can reach the 3GHz, if the load goes high, all cores will drop to 2.3GHz max. It seems that the module maybe have some limit on t...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  10/31/23, 1:42 PM
• Cooler?

  https://www.coolserver.com.cn/en/product_view_442_313.html But I'm still waiting for this product, the manufacturer said it is out of stock for a long time.

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  Jiaheng Wang
  10/30/23, 12:05 PM
• CPU Replacement

  @Tu Ken Hi, I have successfully replaced my original Q32-17 to Q80-30, but after my replacement ,  the Q80-30 cpu can only run on 2.3GHz frequency. How to let it run in max frequency? &nb...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  10/30/23, 7:35 AM
• No cpu temperature and system inventory info in BMC

  @Tu Ken Hi, here's my module's serial: 2371100KZV

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  Jiaheng Wang
  10/30/23, 7:33 AM
• usb header on carrier not work

  I connected the 9-pin Header to the Front panel of my chassis. But when I connected the usb device to the port, It has 5V power, but no usb signal. Cannot see the device in system. How to make USB4...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  10/16/23, 4:25 AM
• ASPEED VGA driver for windows 11 arm

  https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/ampere-altra-max-windows-gpus-and-gaming It seems that someone have successfully installed the driver for Windows 11 arm, and it can let the screen resolutio...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  10/9/23, 9:47 AM
• P_2V5_BMC_AUX purpose

  After some investigation on the schematic. I find that the P_2V5_BMC_AUX signal did not connect to any BMC ADC pin. I measured the voltage of P_+2V5_BMC_AUX pin on  the board, it does have 2.5...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  9/29/23, 1:23 AM
• No cpu temperature and system inventory info in BMC

  Recently I received my ampere altra dev kit, And After my setup , There're some strange issues,  First is there's no CPU temperature sensor, and the BMC_FAN_1 Speed is a fixed value which doe...

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  Jiaheng Wang
  9/26/23, 5:11 AM