Intel® Server Board S2600WF Family BIOS and Firmware Update for Intel® One Boot Flash Update (Intel® OFU) Utility and WinPE*

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Introduction

This download contains the System Update Package for the Intel® Server Board S2600WF Family for Intel® OFU Utility, read firmware dependencies in requirements section.

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Detailed Description

Attention:

Do NOT use this OS-based Software Update Package (SUP) if the system is an Intel® Data Center Block for Nutanix* Enterprise Cloud, the said system relies on Nutanix’s Prism Life Cycle Manager for any firmware updates. For more information, visit Nutanix* Life Cycle Manager page. For a list of hardware and firmware compatibility, visit the Nutanix* Hardware and Firmware compatibility page.

Firmware requirements

To update the system firmware stack to the versions included in this update package, the currently loaded system firmware stack on the system must meet the following:

• System BIOS - R02010016 or later
• ME Firmware - 04.01.04.804 or later
• BMC Firmware - 2.88.71773d70 or later
• FRUSDR - 2.04 or later
• PMEM - 01.02.00.5446 or later

Failure to get to the required firmware stack, may cause unexpected results.

Overview

This download record contains the BIOS and firmware update package for the Intel® Server Board S2600WF Family and appropriate Intel® Server System R1000WF Family and Intel® Server System R2000WF Family for Intel® One Boot Flash Update (Intel® OFU) Utility and Windows* Preboot Execution Environment.

Purpose

This Firmware Update Package supports 1st and 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor families

This update package includes the following production-level system firmware updates:

• System BIOS - 02.01.0017
• ME Firmware - 04.01.05.002
• BMC Firmware - 2.88.e172ff67
  • Read TA-1161 about implementation of password complexity rules for this BMC Firmware version
• FRUSDR - 2.04
• Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Firmware (DCPMM) - 01.02.00.5446

Check below to see firmware updates and troubleshooting tips:
https://intel.com/support/serverbios

Important notes:

• OFU utility with flashupdt tool does not support DCPMM FW update, please refer to "DCPMM_Update_Intructions.txt" part of this package for instructions to update DCPMM.
• This SFUP package includes the FW 01.02.00.5446 for Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory (DCPMM), if you received your DCPMM DIMMs with a different FW, please install this one.
• Starting from BMC 2.22.59c3b83a, when KCS Policy Control Mode is configured as "Deny ALL" on BMC EWS, BMC and FRUSDR cannot be upgraded/downgraded as expected behavior. Updates can still be performed via Redfish or BMC EWS
• BMC and FRUSDR versions cannot be downgraded to backwards versions.
• For Windows and WinPE, the user needs to exit/ close the command prompt after each update.
• Refer first to the release notes for detailed information on installation instructions, supported hardware, what is new, bug fixes, and known issues before starting the firmware update.
• You must install this update package using Intel® One Boot Flash Update (Intel® OFU) v14.1 build 19 or later.