Owner's Manual

your computer. You must restart your computer before the new
settings will take effect. Do you want to restart your
computer now?”
Select “No” to ignore this message. This message is due to the
creation of a temporary USB device used for storing the firmware
image. If you select “Yes”, the firmware update process stops.
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DRAC 5 firmware
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* Before updating the DRAC firmware, ensure that the following
conditions are met:
- USB is enabled
- IPMI is working properly
- DRAC Virtual Flash is not in use by the operating system or
another application
- WMI service is running
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Power Supply Unit firmware
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* Power Supply Unit firmware updates can be performed only on Life Cycle
Controller enabled systems.
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All PERC firmware and all SAS firmware
(All storage controller firmware)
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* Only devices connected to a PERC SAS controller can be updated at this
time. This includes PERC5, PERC6, H200, H700, H800, SAS5 and SAS6
controllers.
* Do not run storage controller update packages if the controller is
in use by other applications.
The firmware upgrade may fail if any of the RAID controllers in the
system are performing an I/O background task (consistency
check, background initialization, rebuild, or reconstruction). Allow
the background task to complete before attempting to upgrade the
firmware. "Patrol Read" tasks will not affect a firmware upgrade.
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PERC 4 firmware
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* Firmware updates require a reboot to take effect.
* If a PERC update package fails on a Windows 2000 system, ensure
that the version of your installed PERC driver is 5.35.2 or higher.
You can obtain the latest PERC driver update package from the Dell
Support website at "www.support.dell.com."
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PowerVault MD1000 firmware
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