Do you still have those files? Your link seems dead. Can't seem to find them on the web. If so, please email me a link.
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Gammalsokk Mod Robert Broyles • 4 years ago see moreSeems the dropbox link died indeed... I'll see if I can find them in my mess to upload somewhere else and update link.
Gammalsokk Mod Robert Broyles • 4 years ago see moreUploaded it to the actual site this time :-)
Remember: Any use is at your own risk, i am not responsible if you brick it.
It worked like a charm on my servers tho.
https://johannes.skartland....
Marc Everett Johnson • 2 years ago see moreThank you so much for sharing this! Just curious did you notice performance or functional improvements (benchmark before and afterwards) for your servers with the bios upgrade? Finally, would you mind sharing the output of a "sudo lshw | head -30" on the server(s) and post here? That would allow us to compare hardware to minimize chance of bricking. Thanks again!
Gammalsokk Mod Marc Everett Johnson • 2 years ago see moreNot that much performance gain, no.
But it solved several issues I had with stability and voltage error messages.Not able to do an lshw unless I take one of them down and boot into a live iso as they are running vSphere 6.5 with vSAN on a daily basis.
Dan Healy • 2 years ago see moreThanks for this information. When I click on those Dell links, it says Access Denied while I'm logged in. If you don't mind, please check if they're still live. If so, would you mind PDF'ing them and uploading them to your site for my download? Sorry to be a pain. I think I've bricked my server before I even got to your blog.
Gammalsokk Mod Dan Healy • a year ago see moreThe DELL links are quite dead indeed.
Did you manage to get it unbricked?
If not it's a shame, they are great servers.De Criticaster Gammalsokk • a year ago see moreI bricked mine as well. I think it's the BMC, when updating that one, everything went well, but got white/black lines at the end of the flash... :(
I tried: SOCFLASH cs=2 option=fc if=<yourmodifiedfw>.bin
But it kept erasing, when I changed it to cs=0 it started flashing and stuff. But ended in the black/white lines at the end.I have a 2nd server, so maybe it's better to only update the bios itself and not the BMC.
I think it should be possible to disable BMC in general (at least on the original C1100 motherboard, but no clue if this is possible on a CS24-CS).
Any idea?
Gammalsokk Mod De Criticaster • a year ago see moreDo you mean a CS24-SC? Can't find any CS24-CS.
CS24-SC (Intel 5100 chipset, Socket 771, Intel Xeon E/L/X50xx - 54xx) is not the same as the CS24-TY (Intel 5500 Chipset, Socket 1366, Intel Xeon E/L/X55xx - 56xx ) so the firmware and most likely the procedure I posted should not work in the first place on a CS24-SC as it's even ment for the DCS/Quanta version of the C1100/CS24-TY not the Poweredge C1100/CS24-TY, tho almost identical.
Greg E • 8 months ago see moreFYI, the wayback machine has an archive of most of the good stuff needed to get your bricked machine working again. Yes I know, this is an old topic but i just bought 3 of these servers for some testing and trying to get them up to date before installing operating systems.
Greg E Greg E • 8 months ago see moreJust a followup. After flashing the BIOS in the zip file above, I got brave and decided to go for the current BIOS on the Dell website. Download the DOS Floppy file, open in 7zip and extract the BIOS firmware. Copy it to the bootable USB you made to do the other updates, and type in the same commands for the new file name of the BIOS. This got me up to BIOS xxxxB25 which has some "fixes" for the Intel processor bugs. Hope this helps someone else.