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Questions tagged [firmware]

This tag is for questions related to the ROM BIOS of a computer, which may contain only elementary basic functions of a device and may only provide services to higher-level software. Firmware such as the program of an embedded system may be the only program that will run on the system and provide all of its functions.

Firmware such as the ROM BIOS of a personal computer may contain only elementary basic functions of a device and may only provide services to higher-level software. Firmware such as the program of an embedded system may be the only program that will run on the system and provide all of its functions.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware

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Exception during the UEFI preboot environment. DellFormsProcessorDxe.efi

While booting a Dell PowerEdge r720, UEFI crashes, making it mostly unbootable. This exception occurs after pressing F2 to get to "F2 System Setup" which means getting to the menu to switch back to BIOS boot mode is NOT possible. Using the F11…
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Installing a WD Red NAS drive on a bare metal Freebsd 11.2 machine with ZFS

WD Red NAS drives come with built in firmware (NASware 3.0). If the drive is not going to be used in a conventional NAS device, such as a Synology or FreeNAS machine, are there any special procedures required to install it on a bare metal Freebsd…
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Checking GPU firmware

In a solution of GPU in Cloud (with OpenStack) where the VMs can access the graphic cards via PCI-passthrough, we want to be sure no malicious person changed the firmware of the GPU from inside a VM. A potential solution we came up with was to use…
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Flashing (R530 onboard) Dell PERC H730 mini to IT mode?

Can I flash the firmware of the onboard PERC H730 mini (rebranded LSI) in a Dell R530 server? Right now, I have it in pass-through mode, which works fine, but FreeBSD doesn't get any SMART data. With normal expansion card controllers, I would flash…
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On boot firmware request for intel GMA 3100 chipset timing out

I am currently in the process of installing a Gentoo linux box with a Vanilla 2.6.29-r5 kernel with gentoo-xen-kernel patches in order to run the Xen Hypervisor. After rebooting with the new kernel, the booting process seemed to hang on: [ …
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Recover HP switch from failed firmware update

I have a HP V1910-16G (JE005A) switch which I decided to update the firmware on. I've downloaded the latest software package from the HP website…
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Second-hand Linksys WRT1900AC - security concerns?

I purchased a second-hand Linksys WRT1900AC wireless router from some guy online. Is it safe to just hard-reset, plug in and configure? As far as I understand, it is a highly-customizable device which could potentially be running a modified…
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Dell R610 idrac upgrade

Recently I found out that iDrac has security issues here and according dell is not supposed to be connected to internet. I'm trying to upgrade it's firmware so I downloaded bootable iso from…
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Where to ask about SNOM870 administrator access?

I updated one of our SNOM870 VOIP handsets to FW 8.7.5.35 and now cannot access the phone's administrative interface. The web access works and the phone finds the SIP proxy but many of the visible settings have changed such that the unit is no…
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Paranoid: What does binary NIC firmware do?

My server has a Realtek NIC, so I installed realtek-firmware package from Debian non-free. My question is: What could be possible (paranoid) attack / backdoor scenarios coming with the proprietary of it (e.g. could it send duplicates of all packets…
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HP DL160 G6 firmware iso

I have an issue updating HP Proliant DL160 G6. I downloaded some firmware on the internet but its not working. I haven't had luck googling on the internet for a reliable firmware ISO to use. The server is installed with the latest Linux Debian…
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How to upgrade HP 4110 VoIP phone firmware.

Actually, I have found the clue here on after googling, but the problem is I can not download the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 or 2013. http://jackstromberg.com/2013/05/configuring-lync-server-to-push-out-latest-microsoft-lync-phone-edition-firmware/…
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How to upgrade Intel 10G NIC firmware under Linux

There is a Linux server with several Intel 82599ES cards: # lspci | grep -i eth 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit…
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How to update firmware on Dell PowerEdge 1950 DRAC

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a DRAC that I can ssh into but cannot http to. As I understand it, if the logs fill up all space, the only way to recover is to load the latest DRAC firmware. Not only can I not find the firmware, I can't find any…
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Failed BIOS update DELL R620

So ahead of an ESXi6.0u2 update we are refreshing the BIOS on one of our clusters to reach a compatible level. Using OME I have been able to push the BIOS to several servers without hitch, until now. I am currently stuck with a server that fails…
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