Dec 26, 2018 I'm really sure what SM could do in this instance; they might well change the key creation method, but there's no way to tell the difference between a key that's been bought and one that's been user generated so if they wanted to change the key format, they'd have to a) issue IPMI updates for every board to invalidate all existing keys and b) re-issue all customers with valid new IPMI keys. Dear Supermicro, Why in the name of all that is holy must I create a Windows 98 boot disk to flash your BIOS? And then discovering their activation key generator page is dead again. Continue this thread.