BIOS Upgrade

[Jord9857]

Hi all, (sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place)

I've got a HP Microserver N54L with FreeNAS installed with Plex plugin.

I'm trying to upgrade the BIOS on my system, following all the steps (https://www.nathanielperez.us/blog/hp-proliant-n40l-bios-modification-guide) soon as i plug my USB stick into my N54L HP Microserver and automatically boots off it, I get

'ROMPAQ may take a few minutes to get started. Please be patient....
Command or filename not recognized
C:\>'

Does anyone have any idea's?

Thanks

 

[Samuel Tai]

Try modifying the flash.bat in the USB stick file so it reads:

Code:

Before:

kbd /"flash O41100~1.rom -r 100000,10000 -r 1e0000,10000;q"

After:

kbd /"flash O41100113.rom -r 100000,10000 -r 1e0000,10000;q"

 

[Jord9857]

 

[Spearfoot]

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Does rompaq.exe exist on the USB drive's root directory?

EDIT: Because 'Command not found...' is exactly the error you would see if it was missing.

 

[Samuel Tai]

You'll need to recreate your thumb drive using the HPQUSB.exe in the Flat Files folder, not the one on your desktop.

 

[Jord9857]

You'll need to recreate your thumb drive using the HPQUSB.exe in the Flat Files folder, not the one on your desktop.

Oh I understand what you're saying,

So just done this, now I got all these extra files.

 

[Samuel Tai]

Yes, don't forget to copy in the modified ROM file. You may also need to modify flash.bat as I mentioned above.

 

[Jord9857]

Yes, don't forget to copy in the modified ROM file. You may also need to modify flash.bat as I mentioned above.

Yes just done that too, so that's it? What about this rompaq.exe?

 

[Samuel Tai]

No, you don't need rompaq.exe.

 

[Jord9857]

ok, just plugged my USB into the HP Microserver. Now it's saying...

'Next Please!!!
ROM File 041100113.rom does not exist
Line 274, Error 0x3'

I tried with both a capital .ROM and lower case .rom (whether that makes a difference)

 

[Samuel Tai]

That's a capital letter O, not a number 0 in the ROM file name. You'll have to modify flash.bat accordingly.

 

[Jord9857]

The first one is a capital letter O, the other 2 are 0's which is exactly as it is in the .bat file. Just double checked and still not working.

Does it matter if the .rom is in capital letters or not?

 

[Samuel Tai]

No, it shouldn't. Try renaming the ROM file in flash.bat back to the original: O41100~1.rom.

 

[Jord9857]

No, it shouldn't. Try renaming the ROM file in flash.bat back to the original: O41100~1.rom.

It worked back as O41100~1.rom

Thank you very much for your help !