Dell Optiplex GX620 hangs after firmware update... help

[Fabrice LORRAIN]

Michael E Brown a écrit :
>...
>>
>> now I'm happy again ;)
>>
>> as to what was wrong with my original procedure I can only guess:
>> 1) the fact that I did 'update_firmware --yes' three times in a raw
>> 2) the fact that I did poweroff, i.e. cold restart.
>> one or both of these may have garbaged some CMOS setting...
> 
> It's quite odd. I have not ever seen this on new machines. The older
> machines all had crap BIOS with a ton of bugs (misreported checksum
> algorithms, byte offsets wrong, etc). It is possible that there is a bug
> there, but since you can't reproduce after update I'm not sure I will be
> able to figure it out (especially now that the CMOS is clear.)
> 

Hello Michael,

Late report. I had the exact same pb, in september, as the one describe
by Davide Rossetti. Upgrading an optiplex GX620 to BIOS A11 (using
dellBiosUpdate) after the soft-reboot the optiplex was sitting there
without doing anything. After 10min of waiting I hard reboot the box and
bios beeping ... dead box. Several reboot didn't fix the issue.

Clearing the CMOS, fixed the pb and the box had upgraded without trouble
after that.

We did upgrade quite a lot of GX620 since then and we didn't had any pb
so far.

@+,
	F. Lorrain