Z240 - BIOS updates?

[Simon-Weel]

So I had a visit to HP Z240 Tower Workstation Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Support to find out if there are any BIOS updates. The section Firmware lists 7 updates, but none of them are for the machine itself. Opened all the categories, but no BIOS updates? Are they moved to a different location or is this a quirk of the support site?

[DGroves]

the HP z240 family has been very fortunate in that no known bios related issues have been found so far

so there is no need for a bios update update

[Simon-Weel]

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@DGroves wrote:

the HP z240 family has been very fortunate in that no known bios related issues have been found so far

so there is no need for a bios update update

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Really?? Well, I downloaded BIOS update version 1.91 (sp151934.exe) just about a month ago and that one isn't listed anymore either. My guess is it's still there, but no longer visible.

[SDH]

Here are unrelated HP ftp server addresses for a SoftPaq and its HP Release Notes, both of which don't work anymore. At the bottom instead are the addresses that work for what you want now, and I have no idea why the links are not in the Z240 listings. Maybe check under the other workstation listed in the HP ReadMe that appears to use the same BIOS ("TITLE: HP Z240 and Z238 series Workstation System BIOS VERSION: 01.91 REV: A PASS: 1"):

Old addressing that was less secure... don't bother clicking on these because they won't work now:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp151501-152000/sp151934.exe

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp151501-152000/sp151934.html

New way, that works for what you want, released 3/25/24:

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp151501-152000/sp151934.exe

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp151501-152000/sp151934.html

If you know the number of the SoftPaq you can figure out the proper current addressing with this info, once you figure out the 500-item block system HP uses and the changes in prefix and suffix that I did.

EDIT: It's there under the Linux/Linux listing for both the Z238 and the Z240 but I would not use that. Be advised that there might be a good reason why it is not currently available under all the Windows OS listings. I only update BIOS from within BIOS which I consider the safest approach and has never failed me. I downloaded it and the N51_0191.bin file is in there in several directories... that is what you want to harvest and the method of presenting that to BIOS to update from within BIOS is presumably the same as I've posted about for the larger ZX40 and ZX G4 workstations... down inside the nest of 3 properly named directories containing the .bin file at the bottom, on a thumb drive.