alt Hacker NewsOut of curiosity: how "bricked" are these boards? Is there irreversible hardware damage (and, if so, how?), or has some firmware just gotten overwritten?
Out of curiosity: how "bricked" are these boards? Is there irreversible hardware damage (and, if so, how?), or has some firmware just gotten overwritten?
One of them I managed to fry the pcie root complex somehow, not sure exactly how. One I damaged the traces to the BMC SPI flash. Two others I think just have bricked firmware, but it's been years, so I don't remember for sure.