After re-reading, its the H8QGL it must be disabled.
I'm getting closer to flashing, everything is checking out good.
I've flashed so many bios it doesn't phase me anymore,
main thing is to have all the correct info before you start and understanding that info.
As seen it was a little tricker on the ankle bitter 4P than normal desktop boards,
so I'd like to be a little more clear on this server board before I start.

Wolf, I'm watching you close, we (I) need a step by step for this, I can't afford to screw it up but i'm itching to do it and I'd be happy to move from my .19 to 2.2 lol

Oh my I seen a big red flash! [H] at boot after a successful flash.
 
Flashing is really simple once you know the ins and outs.
 
For those wanting to update the bios for the H8QGi+f /6 motherboards.
First you'll need to format and make your USB drive bootable.
I used Rufus, what you need to know and the download is in the link.
Grab the bios that is correct for your board at [H] forum
You'll also need to grab the zip bios files from SM for your board.
H8QGi/6: http://www.supermicro.com...s/getfile.aspx?ID=1283
H8QGL: http://www.supermicro.com...s/getfile.aspx?ID=1278
  
 
NOTE: IPMI (BMC) must be disabled on H8QGL boards
 
Once these are done and you have a bootable flash drive unzip and move the
SM bios files plus the [H] bios file to the flash drive.
 
Shut down your H8QG, place the flash drive in a USB port, start computer, 
enter bios and change boot order to USB. F10 to save and exit.
It will now boot off the flash drive if you have done everything correct to this point.
Once booted to the flash drive and to the C:\  see example
To flash, use:
  flash.bat <filename>
   example: flash.bat G60NG4.A11
 
Do not power off or interrupt until the flash has completed.
You'll know by what it tells you by what's on the screen that it is done.
Power off at this point wait a min. or so, then power on the unit and enter bios,
load bios' optimal defaults with (F9 key) (very important)
Save and exit (F10 key) wait to see post screen power off, wait power on.
You can now re-enter bios if there are some changes you'd like to make such as boot order.
Your done with this part. Now onward to OCing.

To avoid some confusion, the SM H8QGi-F bios update zipfile from the link on the SM H8QGi-F product page at http://www.supermicro.com...000/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm doesn't have any "flash.bat" file in it, it has an autoexec.bat file with a hardcoded BIOS update file, "H8QG63.201."
 
Use the Wolf's link above for the bios flash files, NOT the SM H8QGi-F product page's link unless you are adventurous and want to diddle around with your own custom batch file!
 
I'm flashing my H8QGi-F with G60NG4.A11 BIOS image the as I type this... and it's done! Time to reboot...  CMOS Checksum failed, entering setup, load optimal defaults, save and reboot...  [H] logo came up and it booted right into Ubuntu. Need to shut it down and bang away on the Delete key as it boots. Set my options in the BIOS and now it is time to play.
 
It seems like it warm booted somewhat quickly, no OC yet, guess that's a good sign. SSHed in. Loaded ocng-cu, set the refclock to a conservative 220 and shutdown. Wait. Restart.SSH back in. Clockspeed: 2308.866 MHz, yeah baby. Let's load up fah and see what's what. Resuming the stinky 8101 at 122940... Temps look good. No HT retries. Wait for a couple of frames to complete. 8101's were averaging 17:22, but on the last run it was 17:04, looking for it to drop to around the 15:20 mark, hopefully. 15:27 seconds, not bad, looks like success to me. I'll let it run out the rest of this WU and then bump it to 225.
 

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I'm flashing my H8QGi-F with G60NG4.A11 BIOS image the as I type this... and it's done! Time to reboot...  CMOS Checksum failed, entering setup, load optimal defaults, save and reboot...  [H] logo came up and it booted right into Ubuntu. Need to shut it down and bang away on the Delete key as it boots. Set my options in the BIOS and now it is time to play. 

Not sure if you did a reboot or a power off here, but I did a power off right after the
bios flash was complete, waited a min. or so then power on so I never saw a
CMOS Checksum failed with the power off method, entered bios loaded optimal defaults,
save wait to see boot screen and power off again. Power on enter bios make changes as needed.
Also on 1st boot after the power down the [H] logo came right up.
Times are looking good.
Edit:
Side note:
I started at 226mhz I'm now up to 246mhz. Jumping 10mhz at a time and testing.
Frequencies to avoid
 
241 is a go. 242 is a no-go.

List of frequencies to avoid (until new version comes out): 209, 232, 242, 262
Source

I just did a shutdown with the power button after the flash and fired it back up after about 15 seconds. Bad Checksum is normal AFAIK until you load the optimal defaults. In any event it wasn't a problem for me nor did it concern me. First boot the [H] logo just flashed and was gone, but until I changed the quiet boot to no it stayed and hung out until the OS booted.
 
My WU will complete just after midnight and I'll bump it to 230 and let it run overnight. I don't hit the sack until 2 am or thereabouts so I'll be able to keep an eye on it until then. Hopefully I won't get another stinky 8101.
 

Yea it could have been there "the CMOS Checksum failed error" but covered by the [H] logo, since I hit Del pretty quick.
I picked up a 8101 after the 8105 uploaded which isn't what I had hope for since I wanted to place the board today on the Tech station. Messed up my plains.
P8101 @ 246Mhz 2.215Ghz
 
Name: H8QGi+F 4P
 Number of Frames Observed: 14
 Min. Time / Frame : 00:19:54 - 195,673.6 PPD
 Avg. Time / Frame : 00:19:59 - 194,451.0 PPD
 Cur. Time / Frame : 00:19:58 - 194,694.5 PPD 
  How do those times look for a 8101 @2.2ghz?

At 2100 mhz with the 6172's 48 cores on 8101 I was doing TPFs in the 16:50's to the 17:20's, 240K to 256K PPD. Now at 2310 mhz I'm at 15:24 for 287K+ PPD.
 

I completed an 8101 a few hours aga
 
6168 @ 1.9  48 cores  16 X 2GB 1600 ram
 
Name: 4P Folder Path: \\JOHNERZ-H8QG6\fah\ Number of Frames Observed: 100
 Min. Time / Frame : 00:16:32 - 258,387.3 PPD Avg. Time / Frame : 00:16:39 - 255,676.4 PPD

So I take it 20mins a frame isn't to bad concerting the core count of only 32.
I have a new surprise soon.