Can BIOS upgrade damage something?

[J. Epperson]

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> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of michalwd1979
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:06 PM
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> Subject: Can BIOS upgrade damage something?
>
> Hello,
> While I never had a situation when BIOS upgrade went wrong I am
> wondering if it can damage something. For example I have a power
> failure/storm/nuclear explosion during upgrade and the server has been
> rebooted in the middle of writing new image to flash. Does anyone know
> what would happen then?
> Or maybe someone has already experienced such situation?
> My system is PE2850 with gentoo linux and A07 Bios.
>

I bricked a PE6300 like that once.  Power failure, bad UPS.  The nuclear
explosion came later, from management.