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Greenfield2101
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February 1st, 2018 21:00
Unable to update BIOS with IPMI driver disabled error
NX3230, Windows 2012 R2 Standard
Trying to update BIOS, but getting the following error
"Execution status; IPMI driver disabled. Please enable or load the drive then reboot the system"
Can't seem to find any information on enabling or install IPMI.
Nick Childs
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Posted February 16th, 2018 15:00
Having the same problem on one of two R530's i'm trying to update.
cammywebster
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Posted February 17th, 2018 02:00
I'm having the same problem on 3 x M630 blades. There is an "HP Baseboard Management Controller IPMI Device" with a code 10 error in dev mgr. Not sure what an HP device is doing in a Dell server. Would like to know how to be able to update the BIOS.
nadogmoney
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Posted February 21st, 2018 13:00
Open up powershell and run this: get-service -name IPMIDRV
IPMIDRV service needs to be running for some online DUPs to work.
Greenfield2101
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Posted February 21st, 2018 13:00
Hi nadogmoney,
Thanks for the suggestion, I will test it out tonight when everyone is off the network.
Greenfield2101
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Posted February 21st, 2018 21:00
Still not working. Now, I got "Execution Status: IPMI Driver/ Library Initialization Failure"
nadogmoney
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Posted February 22nd, 2018 07:00
Was IPMIDRV not running? If you needed to change the startup type a reboot is required I think because it is a system driver.
Greenfield2101
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Posted February 22nd, 2018 09:00
IPMIDRV was not running. I restarted the service with PS, but didn't reboot the server. I will give rebooting a try tonight and see how it goes.
Greenfield2101
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Posted February 22nd, 2018 21:00
Still no luck. Set ipmidrv to startup to automatic, rebooted the server, verified the service is running after the reboot, but got the same IPMI Driver / Library Initialization failure
nadogmoney
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Posted February 23rd, 2018 11:00
I have not seen "IPMI Driver / Library Initialization failure" before and only have experience with PowerEdge R servers. I have no more things to try. Maybe something is corrupt with the IPMI bus or BMC. Do you have this issue on other servers with the same model number?
Greenfield2101
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Posted February 23rd, 2018 20:00
Well, I decided to give Dell support another call on this and got someone who knows her stuff. She advised that it's a known issue with HP driver and asked me to check Device Manager. In my case, there is a HP device under Storage controller. Once I uninstall it, BIOS update completed successfully. Hope this helps others with the same issue.