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6.ClickApplytobegintheupdates(clickCancelifyouwanttoaborttheupdatesandexit).Allupdates
willruntocompletion,witheachupdater’snativeuserinterfacekeptvisibletotheuser.WhentheUser
InterfaceApplicationregainscontrol,youwillseetheresultsscreen.
Beforedistributingthermwareupdatetootherservers,ensurethatyourservercanrestartsuccessfully
withoutencounteringhardwareproblems.
Notes:
1.Ifyouhavechangedanyhardware(excepttheharddiskdrives)intheserver,youmustreashthe
BIOSandtheRDX.
2.AfterupdatingtheBIOS,alltheBIOSsettingsbecomethedefaultsettingsoftheupdatedBIOSversion.
YouneedtocheckandreconguretheBIOSsettingsforyourspecicneeds.
UsingtheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram
TheThinkServerEasyStartupDVDsimpliestheprocessofconguringyourRAIDcontrollersandinstalling
anoperatingsystem.TheprogramworksinconjunctionwithyourWindowsoperating-systeminstallation
disctoautomatetheprocessofinstallingtheoperatingsystemsandassociateddevicedrivers.
IfyoudidnotreceiveaThinkServerEasyStartupDVDwithyourserver,youcandownloadanimagefromthe
LenovoSupportWebsiteat:http://www.lenovo.com/support.
TheEasyStartupprogramhasthefollowingfeatures:
Self-bootingDVD
Easy-to-use,language-selectableinterface
Integratedhelpsystem
Automatichardwaredetection
RAIDcongurationutility
Devicedriversprovidedbasedontheservermodelanddetecteddevices
Selectablepartitionsizeandlesystem
Supportformultipleoperatingsystems
Installingtheoperatingsystemanddevicedriversinanunattendedmodetosavetime
CreatingareuseableresponselethatcanbeusedwithsimilarlyconguredLenovoserverstomake
futureinstallationsevenfaster
Updatingsystemprograms
ThischapterprovidesinformationaboutupdatingthePOSTandBIOS,andhowtorecoverfromaPOST
andBIOSupdatefailure.
Usingsystemprograms
Systemprogramsarethebasiclayerofsoftwarebuiltintoyourcomputer.Systemprogramsincludethe
POST,theBIOS,andtheSetupUtilityprogram.ThePOSTisasetoftestsandproceduresthatare
performedeachtimeyouturnonyourcomputer.TheBIOSisalayerofsoftwarethattranslatesinstructions
fromotherlayersofsoftwareintoelectricalsignalsthatthecomputerhardwarecanexecute.Youcanusethe
SetupUtilityprogramtovieworchangethecongurationsettingsofyourcomputer.See“UsingtheSetup
Utilityprogram”onpage53
fordetailedinformation.
Yourcomputersystemboardhasamodulecalledelectricallyerasableprogrammableread-onlymemory
(EEPROM,alsoreferredtoasashmemory).YoucaneasilyupdatethePOST,theBIOS,andtheSetup
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