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Flashing Quanta / DCS C1100 servers… I was beginning to get fed up with all the issues with the ancient BIOS and BMC firmware on my C1100/CS24-TY/QSSC-S99K’s the other day. These being of the custom type (Quanta / DCS rebrand) it has turned out to be a hard finding BIOS and BMC firmware that will flash, but I finally came across a solution that worked for me.

I have been working since last summer on compacting my main pc from a full sized TJ07 to a mini-itx Ncase M1 case and finaly stage 1 is complete. It’s a thight fit, but I definately worth the hours put into it.[PiwigoPress id=457 url=’https://img.skartland.net/’ size=’me’ desc=1 class=’img-shadow’ opntype=’_blank’ order=’undefined’] Next stage will be to fully watercool both CPU and GPU again like it was in the TJ07, can feel the gray hairs sneaking up on me allready. Specs: Case: Ncase M1 v2.0. Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Impact. CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k. RAM: 16GB (2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3-2400 Red). GPU: EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 something something (I forgot the rest). Storage: 256GB Samsung SSD 830 (OS). Storage: 512GB Samsung SSD 830 (VMs). Storage: 512GB Crucial MX100 (Games). Storage: 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7200rpm (Storage dump). PSU: Silverstone SX600-G v1.1 (had a v1.0 first that died after a few weeks…) […]

  Server Upgrade Pimped the server a little this christmas… 🙂 From this: To this:

This is Tweedledee & Tweedledum my 2 Raspberry Pi computers! Tweedledee got lucky and is a 512MB version whilst Tweedledum is only a 256MB version.