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</head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">Hello! I came across your page today in search of an easy way to update BIOS on ~800 Supermicro servers around the world at different datacenters. I have used the asulnx tool in the past for another board but it doesn't seem to work for these. I saw in your supported hardware page that the Supermicro X8SIE-F and X9SCM-F boards are not supported under flashrom utility because: <span id="boards_note113" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">113. <a href="http://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#boards_ref113" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">$B",(B</a></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> Requires unlocking the ME although the registers are set up correctly by the descriptor/BIOS already (tested with swseq and hwseq)."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254); "><span style="line-height: 19.1875px; ">What </span><span style="line-height: 19px; ">exactly</span><span style="line-height: 19.1875px; "> does this reason mean and do you know of another BIOS update utility that will work for these motherboards that can be run from Linux (centos5-6)? Thanks!</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254); "><span style="line-height: 19.1875px; "><br></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 253);">-Ben</span></div></body></html>