[EdLUG] HP BIOS Update

[Tai Kedzierski]

Not done anything of the sort myself - but searching for "generic bios"
turns up Coreboot - that said, they don't indicate support for your
particular motherboard

http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

Don't know whether there's anything else that can be searched on. You could
check about re-flashing the backup BIOS if it exists, and if you can do
that.... it's time to experiment :-)


HP have just freshly come out with a commitment statement of "backing open
source" but it seems firmware is not yet included in the roster...


Good luck





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On 9 June 2015 at 14:18, Norrie McKinley <norrie at dunpender.com> wrote:

>  Hi all, this might be a bit of a long shot,
>
> I got myself a wee HP ML115 server that I was going to use to teach myself
> some stuff so I upgraded the RAM and got a new CPU.  The trouble is that
> the machine needs a BIOS upgrade to support the CPU and this can only be
> downloaded from HP's site if you have a current support contract.  Now
> obviously I'm not going to take out support on an old machine like this so
> is anyone able to help?  I know it sounds a wee bit cheeky to ask but would
> anyone able to download this for me?
>
> Sorry if this upsets any HP folk here but it seems a bit harsh to not be
> able to download a BIOS update!
>
> Many thanks
>
> N
>
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