Dell Firmware updates Yellow Bricks. Holy smoke This thread started off with a BIOS update that lead to a FIRMWARE update that lead to a SUU update that lead to the UEFI update that lead to an i. DRAC update that lead to hell and highwater at every turn. Captain America And Bucky Frozen there. I confess to having five R7. BIOS and FIRMWARE. The experience to get to there from here was the nightmare incarnate referenced and footnoted above. Drac7_WebGUI_BIOS_Update-3.png' alt='Perc 6 I Firmware Update' title='Perc 6 I Firmware Update' />So this will work for the PERC firmware as well I always thought that was just for the iDRAC itself and not the BIOS and firmware. Could be a bit of a gamechanger 10 thoughts on HowTo Replace dead faulty drive in Dell PERC RAID array alan boxberger March 16, 2017 at 1535. Hi Pier Followed instructions above but. Then I shifted gears and found a BDP utility somewhere and as all things Dell promising the world, I managed to download it and make it work on a Win. It gives the option of creating a bootable USB or CD from the. ISO packaged in the ZIP file. Sounds simple eh Well, when Dell says CD, it means CD. While it may write to a DVD, it wont work the same. That was just for starters, leaving me to hunt around for a CD RW I could erase and re use. Yikes Then, pressing F 1. OPTICAL DRIVE as boot device, I found it worked just as quickly and seamlessly as anyone will remember using 3 12 floppies. Strange as it may sound, a colleague suggested I borrow his USB Floppy just for this occasion. I declined of course because all of my 3 12 floppy material is indeed Museum Grade and therefore it is too difficult to decide which one I will discover will fail after all these years to re use. Back to the BDP. It was written for BIOS 6. Maximize application performance with the PowerEdge R740 Server which features accelerator cards, storage and compute power in a 2U, 2 socket platform. Here is a list of all PowerEdge System repository ISOs. Please note that these ISOs are publicly hosted by Dell and are not created by me. The system ISOs are updated. Update 2015. 04. 02 From ESXi 5. The obvious problem rose up when Dell released 6. I havent seen the BDP for this version yet. However, that is and should not be the case. The BDP unfortunately writes Dells secrets to a CD not DVD or successful at least with my old burner etc that cannot be read. In fact, all you see is the NOTEPAD title and descriptor and while this threw me a curve, it was not one that was unhittable. The first problem I had with the BDP was that it wrote to the CD, but contained no data. Seems the braintrust sprung a leak while making the make image and copied only the files in the BIOS subdirectory. Missing the BIOS file, this of course meant the BDP CD v. Using the command prompt in Win. I managed to copy the files to the BIOS sub directory and then use the GUI to make another CD v. This worked like a charm. The F 1. 1, Optical options chosen found the Optical drive, opened the BIOS utility and executed the program without a hitch. Now then, wouldnt it be so nice to create a folder in the BDP utility to permit loading any or all of the firmware even only BIOS if necessary, AND permit the editing of the Autoexec andor other DOS like menu files which would permit mouse selection of the appropriate BIOS at Pause after BOOT I mean they are already 89ths of the way there, why stop now So many secrets, so little time. Since the CD image requires physical access to the server and it takes over five minutes to shut down, restart, update and reboot, it seems more than reasonable that this is indeed a secure enough method to protect the secrets held in the bowels of my testbeds. At the same time, why not update the BIOS itself to permit USB boot, since it is possible after jumping through a number of flaming hoops. Lastly, realizing the game plan wasis to make money and accelerate the obsolescence to that end which doesnt make sense to the poorest of IT minions UNFAIR actually it seems by the volume of complaint messages that Dell would have made a killing selling the BDP for 1 per person per instance.