Owner's Manual

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environment before booting to the operating system. This closes
the USC session which is held for 18 hours. If you do not want to
enter the USC and select "Reboot and Exit", but still want to
execute the DUPs within 18 hours, unplug the power supply of the
system, wait for 10 seconds, and then power on the system.
* Supported devices:
USC, Driver Pack, Diagnostic, iDRAC, Ridgeback
* Supported Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit x86 and x64 Editions)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit x86 and x64 Editions)
Windows-German, Windows-Chinese
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BIOS
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* A BIOS update requires enough free physical memory to load the
entire BIOS image into the physical memory. If there is
insufficient free physical memory available on the system to
load the BIOS image, the Dell Update Package for BIOS may
fail. In this instance, the BIOS can be updated using the
diskette method, by running the Dell Update Package after adding
more memory, or by running the Dell Update Package immediately after
a reboot.
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BMC firmware and BP firmware
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* When upgrading the BMC/ESM firmware or the BP firmware on PowerEdge
x8xx or x9xx servers with the Windows Server 2003 R2 IPMI driver
installed, the update may take up to 20 minutes to complete.
To expedite such updates on PowerEdge x8xx or x9xx servers,
you can uninstall the R2 IPMI driver before performing the firmware
upgrade operation using the command "rundll32 ipmisetp.dll,
RemoveTheDevice" from a command prompt.
After the firmware flash is complete, you can install the driver
again by executing the command "rundll32 ipmisetp.dll,
AddTheDevice". On PowerEdge x9xx servers, the driver can be
re-installed by performing a "Scan for hardware changes" in the
Device Manager.
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BMC firmware
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* When upgrading the BMC/ESM firmware on PowerEdge x8xx or x9xx
servers with the Windows Server 2003 R2 IPMI driver installed,
multiple time-out warning messages from source "IPMIDRV" with Event
ID 1004 are logged in the System Log in the Event Viewer console.