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I recently bought a few Zen 2 and Zen 3 HPE servers, and found out only via trial and error that HPE sells Zen 2 servers without Gen4 motherboard support! It s

I recently bought a few Zen 2 and Zen 3 HPE servers, and found out only via trial and error that HPE sells Zen 2 servers without Gen4 motherboard support! It seems they took the original Zen motherboards with Gen3 and just swapped out the CPU. Only the Zen 3 has a refreshed motherboard. Makes me now check things more carefully to be sure.

tinco 5y ago
Same, worse my vendor sent me an outdated motherboard that officially didn't support the Zen2 CPU and it randomly wouldn't boot, and then they sent me a patched BIOS so it would boot consistently. We needed that machine yesterday, and it's seen maybe 2 minutes of downtime in the past couple years, so I couldn't send it back. My fault for not specifying I wanted the .v2 of the barebones when ordering it over the phone I guess..