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Looking for BIOS for HP ML110 (G1) [a shot in the dark]

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ZippyDan

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Eh, I have an ooold HP Proliant ML110 Server tower.

I want to update the BIOS on the machine to the "latest" version (still 12 years old) 4.06.20RW.

Amazingly, I find that I can't download the latest BIOS for a 12-year-old server, because it requires a valid warranty or service contract with HP. As if I'm going to pay $100+ for a service contract for a 12-year old machine (I'm pretty sure the machine itself isn't even worth the cost of a service contract at this point). See yourself here: http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/swd...03837&swItemId=MTX_UNITY_I21263&swEnvOid=1005

Now, I guess this a moral "grey area", but when I bought this machine 12 years ago, there was no expectation that I would be required to pay for BIOS updates ever. I don't know of any other company that does this. And it sure wasn't this way when I updated my BIOS on a 6-year-old HP Proliant a few years ago. So I googled the issue and found this article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-to-...rmware-updates-and-service-packs-for-servers/

What the frack HP? To me, HP has the immoral low ground here, blocking my access to updates to a device I paid for more than a decade ago, with no expected restrictions as to my ability to update it. It seems to me that HP would have been well within their rights to start charging for BIOS updates going forward. Then customers could make a decision up front about whether they want to invest in an HP product that will require additional money to keep up to date. But it seems highly sketchy to me to retroactively start charging people for updates to products they have already bought and were free up until that time.

Anyway, any chance that someone has an old copy of ML110SystemBIOS4.6.20-1.zip ?
 
Let me dig around, I MIGHT be able to scrounge that up for you.

Regarding their policy. While I don't like it either, they made no promises of providing future updates to you in the first place. In addition, while it's not terribly common to see that policy for firmware updates (but not unheard of, such as with Dell/Wyse Thin Clients), it is pretty common for enterprise software in general. You're welcome to keep using it, but if you want updates you need a service contract.
 
IBM does the exact same thing - ALL their downloads are bundled behind a paywall that only people with valid contracts can access.
and well done burpo. 🙂
 
Burpo said:
http://ftplike.com/adindex.aspx?q=ML110SystemBIOS4.6.20-1.zip&m=EXACT&s=913078-913078&t=Files

http://www.filewatcher.com/b/ftp/ft...pportsoftware/UTILS/ML110_A.112/zip/US-0.html
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Do you think I don't know how to use google? 😛

Did you actually try to use your links? Both of them are just (I'm assuming old) indexes of the HP and Compaq (i.e. HP) ftp servers, respectively. I've browsed both ftp sites manually and HP has already removed the BIOS files from their ftp sites. In other words, both of your links are broken.
 
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bruceb said:
I used Firefox and was able to download both of these files from the BIOS Section

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=3577715&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=1005

cp014221.exe and SP51267.exe
Not sure what they will do but they are listed under BIOS for your machine

Sorry ... apparently your machine is 64 bit windows 2003 ... not sure why they would need
a specfic bios for a 64 bit os ... you need SP33655.exe which sorry to say I can not find.
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That's a G5 not a G1. That said, OP, I feel obligated to point out you could replace it with a much newer one for like $80.
 
XavierMace said:
That said, OP, I feel obligated to point out you could replace it with a much newer one for like $80.
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Which is exactly why it is outrageous that HP would expect me to have a service contract on a machine whose value is less than a service contract, just to be able to download a simple BIOS update.

Which is exactly why I am looking for a way to find it for free. I'm not spending any money on this machine because, as you pointed out, I could replace it with a machine at least 4x faster for the price of a service contract for a silly BIOS.

If the BIOS had always been behind a paywall then I would just accept that as a privilege I have to pay for, but since it was free for ten fracking years and is now suddenly behind a paywall, I don't feel any moral quandary in looking for a way around this silly new policy. Again, I think a much more reasonable approach for HP to make would have been to start requiring people to pay for all BIOS updates released from the date of the announcement going forward.
 
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