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June 6th, 2019 13:00
PowerEdge T300
I'm having issues being able to push BIOS firmware to a T300. I installed Server 2016 and when I do a fresh installation, it works fine, until it starts rebooting and installing updates or what have you.
Any time I have to reboot the computer, it locks up. I'm not sure why. I've tried to update the firmware but the tool doesn't split the image into a bin or a rom that I can install manually from a flash drive.
I have reason to suspect that because of how old and out of date this board and the BIOS seemingly is, that it might actually be hacked or something... When I attempt to use:
Get-WMIObject Win32_SystemEnclosure...
******
Manufacturer : Dell Inc.
Model :
LockPresent : True
SerialNumber : *******
SMBIOSAssetTag :
SecurityStatus : 2
******
The model and asset tag fields are empty.
When I load up msinfo32...
The System Model is there but SKU isn't.
I've tried to call, but this thing is way out of warranty and so getting actual assistance with this has been a pain in the neck. I know this is an x64 based system, so the architecture shouldn't be the issue, perhaps it may be something else... I've looked at the digital signature of the file I've pulled from DELL's site, and it appears slightly suspect to me since that's missing some pretty critical fields in its digital signature.
I'm supposedly running 1.5.1 of my machine here, and all I can really say is that I need this machine to last a bit longer, and I don't really care for the 10+ minutes it takes to actually shut itself off to reboot every time I need to install updates.
Anybody able to provide some suggestions?
- Michael
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June 6th, 2019 13:00
Which file did you try to run to update the BIOS? This one?
https://downloads.dell.com/bios/PET300_BIOS_WIN_1.5.1.EXE
If not, run that one from within Windows.
Note that Server 2016 isn't a validated OS on the T300, so if it does an OS version check, you may need to update it with another OS (2012 R2 or earlier) then install 2016.
mykalcook
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June 7th, 2019 11:00
Yes that's the version I currently have installed... It won't install this BIOS. I would need the actual .bin file and be able to put it onto a flash drive so I can just boot into dos mode to do the update, it freezes every time the computer reboots...
mykalcook
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June 7th, 2019 11:00
What I should say is, I originally installed this BIOS, and it has that installed, but then I started having problems rebooting the machine again and so each time I try to reinstall it, it won't work.