I'm trying to update 2 server's motherboard BIOS's at St. John the Baptist School, which runs on Intel STL2 motherboards. The original BIOS's that came with the board were the 1st release BIOS and since then they had fixed many problems. The reason I'm trying to upgrade the BIOS is because theses two servers crash every 2-3 months and corrupts the OS. I'm thinking its either a driver problem, Upgrade firmware on PCI ATA100 IDE Controller (I have this cause the server board runs has U160 SCSI and only has 1 IDE port that runs @ 66mhz. I have a IDE drive that can use the ATA100 speeds), BIOS needs to be updated, or memory timing problems (Intel site say's this board is really picking on the timing & the Crucial memory I have is not on their Certified List (512MB PC133 ECC REGISTERED SDRAM).
Now, here's the kicker that's putting some major hurt on me. :( The BIOS upgrade is not standard upgrade where you just flash the new image but they need you to flash several items. http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/stl2/latest_bios.htm Intel(r) STL2 Server Board Latest BIOS The current Intel(r) STL2 Server Board production BIOS is version 1.12, BMC 01.19 and 11.19, and FRUSDR 4.3.B. The recommended BIOS upgrade method is as follows: 1. CMOS clear 2. BMC Upgrade <--No clue what this is for 3. BIOS 4. FRU/SDR <--No clue what this is for 5. CMOS clear Im stuck on part 2 because the file that they want you to load onto a floppy is bigger then the floppy. They also have some unclear install notes on how to do the install. Has anyone upgraded the BIOS & other recommend BIOS upgrades on theses Intel STL2 (dual PIII server motherboards)? Also, the Crucial memory is not on Intel's registered list of memory. This board is currently using 512MB ECC Registered Sdram, and everytime you boot up you get a DIMM error. This is my second set of memory modules from Crucial. Do you think this is the same problem the Tyan boards were having (Dual AMD boards)? Let me know if anyone thinks they can fix it. I'll buy you lunch. :) Thanks! Wilson
