BMC Settings
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Check image version and current image version, then click “Proceed to Update” button to
start update.
Wait for about 15 mins (both images), then flash is complete.
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BMC Update Step 3
9.23.1.4 SOC Flash Update
SOCflash tool will directly erase and overwrite flash with new image without Firmware
Integrity Checking. All configuration will be erased.
For security, we disable High-performance Bus (AHB) bridges by default, you cannot
arbitrarily read and write access to the BMC’s physical address space from the host, and
SOCflash is disabled. If you want to enable SOCflash, you should enable High-performance
Bus (AHB) bridges, please contact our support staff to get the method. We strongly don’t
suggest customer to use SOCflash tool for security.
To update BMC in Windows/Linux/DOS, enter DOS or Linux shell or Windows cmd line,
execute the following CMDs:
socflash if=Imagefile will update the Image1;
socflash if=Imagefile offset=0x2000000 will update the Image2.
9.23.2 BIOS Firmware Update
BMC supports BIOS Firmware update via the Management Web GUI.
Intel ME firmware is packaged with BIOS firmware as a single firmware image.
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Support two upgrade modes: “BIOS+ME” and “BIOS Only”.
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Power off the system before performing BIOS firmware update.
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After BIOS firmware update, BIOS NVRAM will be cleared, all BIOS configuration will be