I've had a stack of Dell servers sitting around for a few months that I really need to sell. This week, I forced myself to move forward on this and start getting the servers ready for sale. I usually like to update all the BIOS/ firmware and clean the servers and test everything before I sell them. Well, when it comes to Dell PSU firmware, I guess "don't fix what isn't broken" really applies... apparently the firmware update is tricky and prone to brick the PSUs. I've now got at least 2 bricked PSUs. I'm not going to do those updates anymore, but now I'm wondering if this can be fixed? I have a few other PSUs of the same model that work and I'm wondering if I can read the firmware off the working units and flash them onto the non-working units? Anyone attempt this before and know what's involved? I do have a USB->SPI/I2C adapter, but not sure what hardware is in the PSU yet...
Just wanted to reach out to the collective at STH ... if this is futile effort, I'll not waste my time at it. If no one has tried it, i may spend a little time to investigate.
Just wanted to reach out to the collective at STH ... if this is futile effort, I'll not waste my time at it. If no one has tried it, i may spend a little time to investigate.