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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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Firmware updates for HP DL360 G5 server

DL360 G5 firmware update (BIOS, iLO, etc): From where it should be taken? Most existing links to the HP portal are broken. Update: HP has moved to new portal (reason why links are broken). However, almost everything is accessible according to…
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Dell R510 can't access Lifecycle controller

NB: I've checked How to upgrade iDRAC firmware and BIOS of Dell PowerEdge R510? -- they are much further along in that they have LifeCycle controller working and just had an issue with the filetype. I'm having a tough time trying to update BIOS…
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Is Firmware OS Independent?

Normally when I buy a PC laptop the first thing I do is update the BIOS via default Windows install, and then blow away Windows with a fresh Linux (Fedora) install. That's the case now, just bought a Dell Precision M4700, updated the BIOS and now,…
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Vpd r/w failed This is likely a firmware bug on this device

Does this mean my RAID 1 device is failing? EDIT: seeing this is a raidcare issue. How can I pull the specs and download/install the driver? netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes. megaraid_sas 0000:05:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is…
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Need to downgrade Seagate HDD firmware

OK so I knew I was taking a big risk doing this but I decided to upgrade the HDD firmware on drives in my RAID5 array. And of course the controller is now complaining that one of the HDD sizes is invalid and I can't boot. I'm hoping I can just…
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Can there be created a different firmware for mother boards different than DOS

Maybe this is a dumb question but is something I need to know. All laptops, computers, etc that i've used until today runs DOS as bios firmware... So I was wondering if there is motherboards running firmware that it is not DOS...?
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