Mates,
I'm in the process of upgrading a z620, now 2X Xeon E5-2690 / 40GB DDR3-1600 ECC / Quadro K2200 / Seagate SATA II 750GB / Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
Windows was loaded from the recovery partition of the newer z420 (2015) in the office and which runs BIOS v. 3.84. That 2105 HP / Windows activated automatically, started normally, and has gone though many, many updates already.
The thing is, after updating the BIOS from quite far back to 3.88 using the in- Windows BIOS /.EXE method, on startup, the screen goes through a series of messy screens- perhaps 8 or more before starting Windows, and some appear to be repeats. A number mention 'American Megatrends" and a few times it paused on prompt to enter RAID setup.
> Are there two or three copies of the BIOS in a row?
> Do I need to update more of the chipset and storage drivers?
Both of the z420's in the office (with SSD's) startup with only a brief pause on the first, HP screen and then directly to Starting Windows.
The setup drive, an elderly Seagate 750GB is extremely slow (Passmark rating 574) so I thought it may be that the disk is just running through something that I don't see at SSD's speed. However I have a new HP Z Turbo (256GB AHCI) and when I put it in the z620 it presented the same set of screens before settling on "Starting your system for the first time".
I tried reverting the BIOS to the previous verion 3.84 which is the same as the two z420's, but it would not run as there is some file missing that apprently is present in an HP recovery partition.
Today I saw that there is a new (8 Aug 16) BIOS for z420 /z620, v. 3.90 and I installed that. also using the Windows mthod Same result with all the avalanche of start up screens.
I've looked through the "preferred method" of copying files to the root directly, and running a series of commands in a CMD, but I have no idea how to do a number of the tasks: mapping the file path to a network drive. The instructions are just not detailed enough.
The systems seems to run normally, but there has be something wrong and I wonder about future stability. This problem is stopping me from completing the upgrade, loading programs and finishing the upgrade.
> How do I correct this?
> Is there a way to clear rhe UEFI BIOS, without removing the chip, and starting over?
Thanks very much!
Cheers,
BambiBoom_Z