[TS-470] (TS-x70/TS-670/TS-870) - Request stock OEM BIOS rom/bin (ca. 2013)

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Does anyone have, or could someone retrieve the stock OEM bios for the TS-470 (MB rev. 1.4… not 2)

I have upgraded to an i7-3770T, 16GB RAM, and have been experimenting with installing TrueNAS Scale via chainloading off of the DOM into a USB3 mSATA drive. I’ve also set up a pcie>mSATA host to boot off of the same mSATA drive using the internal mini-pcie slot.

All of this seems to work fine for the most part.

The last step was to install a GPU: I have an NVIDIA t1000 that I swear to god worked just fine on the factory default OEM bios, but after flashing QC30AR23, I can’t get it to work despite weeks of screwing around with different PCIE, PEG, ASPM, etc…

I got a ch341a and have been modding the bios in FIT and AMIBCP, which is cool but hasn’t fixed anything.

Shame on me for not backing up, first.

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As said on reddit, best would be to open a ticket (this here is a community forum and not a ticket)

https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/faq/article/how-do-i-open-a-technical-support-ticket-with-qnap

edit I guess I actually never hit send on that reddit post

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thanks! I did open a support ticket as well! I’ve heard they are stingy with giving out the bios, so I didn’t have much hope in that succeeding.

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support request denied, as expected.

IF ANYONE HAS A STOCK QNAP TS-470, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

I’m willing to send some $ digitally, if that helps.

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Not sure this will help, but I’ve long suspected that QNAP include BIOS updates in the QTS firmware images. You might try downloading an older TS-470 firmware, then unpack it and locate the BIOS update files. QTS 4.3.6.2050 from July 2022 is available on the QNAP download site: Download Center | QNAP (AU)

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I was poking around at this and didn’t come up with anything. I was also looking at the OEM DOM fs (extracted QTS?), and couldn’t find anything.

Is there a guide on this stuff anywhere?

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Hi mate, I saw this SE page years ago that might help (took me a while to track it down again): https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/a/2714

Looking at it a little closer, there are references to the BIOS in the image.

This was on a very old firmware version though. I don’t know if QNAP have modified the image layout since. Try it and see. :nerd_face:

BTW: here’s a link to the full recovery image for the TS-470: https://download.qnap.com/Storage/tsd/fullimage/F_TS-470_20140519-1.2.8.img