Ambrotos Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Just a note for anyone trying to get this board to work with VMWare ESXi 5.0. This board is technically capable of VT-d (DirectI/O), but I struggled forever to get ESXi 5.0 to recognize it. Very long story short, the latest publicly available BIOS (1.2a) is broken and VT-d support doesn't work. After several emails, cases, and phone calls, I finally got someone at SM to send me their latest beta BIOS for the MB which seems to work very well, and completely fixes the VT-d issues I was having. If anyone's having similar problems with this MB and is interested in the BIOS, just shoot me a PM. Andrew Quote Link to comment
ejeangilles Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 I'm thinking about buying this board also. I went on supermicro's website and the only bios version I see is R 1.a. You said you was able to get a newer one. Also, did the vmware load the network drivers for your motherboard? Quote Link to comment
vincent-z Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Hello Ambrotos, I encountered the same problem, x7sbl-ln2 can not normally open vt-d, Can you send a beta BIOS to me? Very grateful! My Email address: [email protected] Quote Link to comment
F-awn Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 I know, It's been while, but has anybody beta BIOS for X7SBL-LN2, which is working with VT-d enabled? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
SrBabs Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Hi, I'm also looking for this bios file, also I'm planning to update microcodes adding support to 771 xeons. If I can get the bios files. Quote Link to comment
CaptainF Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Hello, in case anybody still looking for the Beta Bios for the X7SBL-LN2, i will post it here. It's the version 2.0a. It really does fix the Vt-d issue. X7SBL1.113.zip 1 Quote Link to comment
vincent-z Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 On 4/19/2019 at 11:19 AM, CaptainF said: Hello, in case anybody still looking for the Beta Bios for the X7SBL-LN2, i will post it here. It's the version 2.0a. It really does fix the Vt-d issue. X7SBL1.113.zip Thank you so much Quote Link to comment
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