Z640 BIOS Downgrade from Ver2.47 to Ver2.45

[roberman]

Hi All,

We are using the Z640 with RedHat 7.4 now, the current BIOS version is 2.47, due to some reason, I need to downgrade the BIOS version back to 2.45, could anyone know how to do that in simple, thanks.

Best regards

Rober

[DGroves]

why do you think a bios downgrade is required? i can not think of any valid reason which would require this????

it's extremely rare for a consumer or workstation system not to be using the latest bios due to a OS or application issue

[BambiBoomZ]

Roberman,

0.   Verify that the current BIOS is not blocked from reversion.

1.  Set a maximum 1GB** MBR, FAT32 partition on a USB drive.  It is helpful if the flash drive has an activity indicator.

___ **1GB is based on zX20 BIOS file size.  Confirm the capacity of BIOS for zX40.

2.  Copy the selected *.bin BIOS file to the root directory of the prepared partition.

3.  With the system, off insert the USB drive into a front panel USB 2.0 port.

4.  Start the system.  The USB LED should (if similar to zX20) show activity and indicate flashing BIOS with a display progress slider.

5. The system should finalize with a BIOS successfully updated message.

6.  Shut off the system,

7.  Remove the USB drive

8.  Reboot to BIOS

9.  Note that the BIOS version was successfully reverted.

__ Be aware that there have been historically, more than one HP BIOS version that can not be reverted, except by invoking the crisis recovery subsystem.  I discovered this when trying to revert z620 BIOS from v3.92 to v3.91.  In this example, a reversion was not allowed as the 3.92 version contained Spectre / Meltdown protection.

May I ask the reason for the reversion?

Let us know how it goes.

BambiBoomZ 

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