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masked the worker instance and called mc reset, now power reset and sol activate again.

Using

ipmi… mc reset cold
ipmi… power off
ipmi… power on
ipmi… sol activate

no output after sufficient waiting time. We should physically check the machine.

Over http://ix64ph1075-sp.qe.nue2.suse.org/ I could not find out the specifics of the hardware and I can't check physically due to defective FC basement access control, tracking that in #150830 so blocking on that

The firmware upgrade attempt never finished for me. I double-checked IPMI and can power off/on the machine but could not see anything on SoL. Can someone else please try to give this a go?

In the Java IPMIViewer application I was able to find the Board Model under the "IPMI Device"-Tab. It states "X9DR3/i-F" which corresponds to https://www.supermicro.com/products/archive/motherboard/x9dr3-f - unfortunately the official firmware download link does timeout for me and others as well. The used IPMI platform seems to be called "X9" so I tried to just search "X9_" on https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/bios_ipmi.php?vendor=1 and downloaded the newest one I could find ("3.64") which I was able to flash and overwrite the present version 3.62. This had no effect and did not improve our situation. Maybe we had a wrong version all along and I try to find some archived version (even if older) to have a "known good".

I found a super helpful reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/j2l7w2/supermicro_x9drif_with_quad_nvme_success/) linking to some different resources from supermicro. On it I found an "official" download for the latest firmware of our platform: https://www.supermicro.com/en/support/resources/downloadcenter/MBD-X9DR3-F. I installed Firmware version 3.62 via the webinterface. Afterwards I installed the newest BIOS (also linked on that homepage) which allowed me to reset all BIOS-settings in the process of doing so. Once the BIOS update was complete the system still didn't output anything so I cut the power completely by using the PDU and left it powered off for ~30 minutes to give every component a chance to initialize completely. Lo and behold; after "plugging" the system back into power and booting it, I received a graphical output on the web-interface, the IPMIViewer utility and also via serial-over-lan. I shut down the system now and it can be powered back on via the usual means.