Intel® Server Board D50TNP Family BIOS and Firmware Update Package for UEFI

Overview

This download record contains the BIOS and firmware update package for the Intel® Server Board D50TNP Family and appropriate Intel® Server System D50TNP Family —for use with Intel's technology-embedded Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) shell.

Purpose

UEFI System Update Package (SUP) Installation and Operation Instructions

Intel highly recommends reading the Readme and Update Instructions.txt in its entirety before performing the system update. Verifying that your system meets the documented requirements will ensure a successful update and provide the most reliable system functionality after the update has been completed.

Released - November 3, 2023

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This update package includes the following production-level system software updates and update utilities:

• System BIOS: R01.01.0009
• ME Firmware: 04.04.04.500
• BMC Firmware: 2.92.98d15180
• FRUSDR: 0.46
• Pmem: 2.2.0.1553
• CPLD: v4P9
• sysfwupdt.efi  - Version 16.0.9

Supported products

Intel® Server Board D50TNP Family

Contact Intel for pre-production hardware support requirements

Important notes

This is a production FW package. All updates provided in this package are installed using the embedded UEFI operating environment only.

Do not modify any of the script files. The scripts as written will provide the most reliable update experience.

Added the new function to check the FW version on the current system, which can make sure whether System BIOS, BMC Firmware, CPLD, FRU&SDR, or PMem data need to be re-installed after the initial update has been performed. The package does include standalone script files that can be run individually.

These files include:

UpdBIOS_TNP.nsh, UpdBMC_TNP.nsh UpdD50FruSdr_TNP.nsh, UpdCPLD_TNP.nsh, UpdatePmemFW.nsh, UpdBMCRecovery_TNP.nsh, UpdCPLDRecovery_TNP.nsh

Do NOT use these files until after the system has been updated initially using the startup.nsh file.

System software requirements

To update the system software stack to the versions included in this update package, the system software stack currently installed on the target server system MUST meet the following, or else the update may fail:

• System BIOS: R01.01.0008
• ME Firmware: 04.04.04.301
• BMC Firmware: 2.91.cb510bad
• FRUSDR: 0.46
• CPLDL: v4P7
• Pmem: 2.2.0.1553 

Important information for the update procedure

To complete update process of CPLD/Pmem/BMC/FRUSDR/BIOS, must execute the startup.nsh,  it will update CPLD/Pmem/BMC/FRUSDR/BIOS and then the system will reboot automatically. 

After reset, the screen will be off and blue ID LED will be solid on for some minutes.   Once update process is completed, the ID LED will be off and system will boot up again. 

Due the new structure of FW using PFR, the first time the server is rebooted once FW has been updated, will take around 12 minutes on the first reboot to conclude the update process, on that time the screen will be off and the System LED will be blinking green/amber, after the first 3 minutes the blue ID LED will be solid on, once the process is completed the ID LED will be off and system will turn on again, after post screen the server could be rebooted a second time.The time to conclude the FW update process is an expected behavior and only presented on the first reboot part of the FW update process. 

More information can be found on the Readme and Update Instructions.txt

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    GENERAL INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

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1. Unzip the contents of the update package and copy all files to the root directory of a removable media (USB flash drive)
2. Insert the USB flash drive to any available USB port on the system to be updated
3. Power on the server and boot into uEFI shell
4. Firmware update process will be started with Startup.nsh running automatically 
5. Once BIOS update process has successfully completed, system will reboot automatically and will take around 12 minutes with the screen off, after that time the server will turn on again.
6. After first reboot and post screen, the server could be rebooted a second time.