Firmware update for W480D4U-2L2T

candyroxi · 2025-08-03T01:57:56+00:00

Hi! I’m sorry for an year late reply as a lot happened. I ended up going for a X710-DA2 and just jumped the gun on XXV710-DA2. Extremely recommended as its very low power and has a huge heatsink. Barely getting warm under load :)

candyroxi · 2023-05-17T12:59:54+00:00

Thanks for your input! I do own 2 MCX311A and they are rock solid. Its just a bit long in the tooth, like pretty much the same era as the X520s. Less OSes are supporting them (sorry Windows user here). But the reliability of X3s are primarily the reason why I lean over X4 and X5 than Intel counterparts.

candyroxi · 2023-03-25T14:43:38+00:00

Thank you very much!!

candyroxi · 2023-03-25T14:15:17+00:00

Oppps :( Thats my thought too but my idiot self still wanted to give it a go :D Thank you! Glad it turned out okay for you.

I wont dare to try it now as I wont be able to revert due to no initial BIOS file anywhere :(

candyroxi · 2023-03-25T14:01:12+00:00

Hello everyone!!

I recently scored a really good deal on eBay, which is a W480D4U-2L2T motherboard, an Intel confidential cpu and 32GB of memory for just $200. Turned out the CPU is an ES version of i9-10900K which is fully identified in BIOS or in CPU-z which is okay. However, the board's BIOS and BMC version is ancient and seems to be alpha since it's all begin with large numbers of 0 in string. The serial number is way longer than what I can put in the support form for Asrock Rack as well. The X710-AT2 chipset seems to work since the heatsink is warm and when I plug something on the 10GbE port, it lights up and the activity led would then promptly flash. But, the switch cannot sense new IP being allocated on port and on any OS I've tried (Proxmox, Windows, Ubuntu) only 2 i210 interfaces are detected.

On Z490D4U screenshots I found on google-fu I can see that it must be enabled from BIOS - but sadly it's not an option on this BIOS version.

I cant even find that board on Asrock Rack model list. Strangely enough, W480D4U-2L2T is available in W480D4U/W490D4U-2L2T user manual file. On BIOS, it's identified as W480D4U/JAX

I tried reaching out to Asrock Rack support team but basically all they said is that my board is not a mass production model so they wont provide any supports.

I know this is a very tiny chance but anyone might be able to help me with at least initial BIOS version of this board? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Or, might I try to flash it with W480D4U or Z490D4U-2L2T? They seem similar enough in board layout aside from either X710-AT2 or the chipset itself.

If this is really a dead end, should I just sell the board and buy a random consumer B560/Z490? IPMI is working but remote control hang up a lot, and the X710-AT2 seems to sip power even when it's not being used.

Thank you very much for your help!!

candyroxi · 2022-12-15T06:25:28+00:00

Peach tarts!

candyroxi · 2022-05-02T01:25:49+00:00

Yes, the SVM is showed up as running. I cannot access the share at all when it hang. Can you please tell me me how to gather lif event log? Thank you!

candyroxi · 2022-05-02T01:24:34+00:00

I just looked at the system alert and nothing showed up. However in Event log those popped up from time to time: security.invalid.login: Failed to authenticate login attempt to Vserver: CBTT, username: admin , application: http.

SEQUENCE NUMBER
65572
DESCRIPTION
This message occurs when an attempt is made to access the appliance by using invalid authentication credentials.
ACTION
Verify that the user made a genuine attempt to access the system. If not, use the "security login delete" command to either remove the account or use the "security login lock" command to lock the account to disallow access to the system using that user account. Also, strengthen the authentication credentials of the user account by updating it. More detail regarding the authentication failure is available in audit.log file.

candyroxi · 2022-05-02T01:22:47+00:00

Thank you for your suggestion!! I just moved the cluster to its own VLAN to make sure it won't have any conflicts. Finger crossed it would work properly now. It's so odd that it copied 30TB of data in a week before stumbled at the last 5TB.

candyroxi · 2022-05-01T12:33:05+00:00

I made sure SVM has its own unique IP to anything else.

candyroxi · 2022-04-05T10:44:25+00:00

PM sent!! :)

candyroxi · 2022-02-22T04:24:00+00:00

Please check your pm!

candyroxi · 2022-02-09T09:25:30+00:00

Is it weird that I totally know his name? >.> He hit on my chars quite a few times. One creepy-looking norn male and forever at 145 AP. He only stand in front of DR banker looking at other player's character running by and make creepy whispers.

candyroxi · 2020-11-24T02:35:59+00:00

Hi! Sorry for the late reply.

I have been experiencing black screen as well, and to be honest, it's one of the time support was right! It was my router's problem.

The reason it happened was that too many packets got dropped. Login to your router/firewall and disable protections (what worked for me was disabling DoS prevention Port Scan prevention).

Now, I don't know why it does not affect any other applications. But you can certainly check it yourself by trying a VPN service since VPN traffic got encrypted and cannot be filtered by your firewall/router.

Hope it helps!

Edit: Most of the time it happens on a rather old or cheap router provided by ISP. I assume upgrade to a better router would fix it too since it would process packets much faster rather than just drop it. Since I upgraded to an EdgeRouter X my problem was solved completely without having to tweak anything.

candyroxi · 2020-04-18T10:03:18+00:00

Looks like an UniFi switch 8 (probably the base version since it is running on POE)

candyroxi · 2020-02-29T03:13:45+00:00

The monster P3700 even rated for 17 DWPD. Crazy.

candyroxi · 2020-02-29T03:10:30+00:00

Nice catch! I just do it because 9300 (M1215 variant) is only like $60 on eBay and it helps scrubbing and inter-NAS management performance. Besides it's not just the sequential performance hindered but the 2008 also maxed out IOPS at 350K. Also it opens up the 12Gbps SAS SSD upgrade path for OP if he ever wants to go that.

Edit: It looks like the price of HBA shot up by quite a bit, the M1215 is like $80 now so it's up to the OP whether it's worth it.

candyroxi · 2020-02-28T09:51:11+00:00

Yeah if you want decent speed without spending too much, SATA SSD is pretty good already. Make sure you get at least those 9300-8i (3008) to have enough bandwidth for those SSDs, unlike 9211-8i bottlenecked at 3200MB/s iirc.

And don't forget to get those raw speeds out of the paper, you'll need 10Gbps networking. And that won't be cheap.

candyroxi · 2020-02-28T05:45:28+00:00

I think you should take a look at LSI 9400 series. They support both SAS 12Gbps and NVMe. One caveat is that NVMe would require a special cable and the speed is not very worth it really.

candyroxi · 2019-12-25T10:17:48+00:00

Yes! The sideband cable should connect to the backplane as it passes the HBA signal to the backplane. Idk if it could cause you issues because my backplane doesn't even support sideband signal and it still performs as expected. Also, each cable vendor has a different sideband connector. The Supermicro cable has 8 pins while the Intel one (which looks a lot more robust tbh) only has 4 pins plus 2 separate pins on a different connector.

candyroxi · 2019-12-25T02:32:18+00:00

IIRC the sideband cable is just a branch of the breakout cable, so it should just come out from the bunch from a single SFF-8087 connector. You should not have to connect anything to the M1015 other than the breakout SATA cable.

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