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Some early H100 system failures were caused by firmware bugs in the server box, potentially from a vendor such as Supermicro rather than Nvidia, and required a firmware update or replacement boxes with corrected firmware.
Evan Conrad · The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute · 20 Oct 2026
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“um like in early h100s there were like firmware bugs that may not even be related to the specific like they may not be nvidia they might be like super micro has a firmware bug in the um in the box that you bought um and it applies to all of them and it doesn't matter like um the solution to that was you need to get them to update their firmware um or they need to ship a new thing”
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