MDAJ20,  It is likely the issue is due to the Lifecycle controller and the iDrac updating before the BIOS update, which is complicating running the update through the LC. What I would suggest, as you are using ESXi, would be to boot to the 32Bit Diagnostic media and then exit to command prompt and run the R#########C.exe updates you listed. Once it is caught up then I think the platform update will be successful going forward. You can find 32bit diags here - <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell> Run that on a windows system to open application. Use the app to create the bootable media to use. Let me know how it goes.
Hi there, We've neglected to upgrade our PowerEdge R910's BIOS since we bought them 3-4 years ago, so we are currently running on 1.1.7 - for the past 2-3 days, I have trying to upgrade the BIOS to 2.10 (and below) but failing miserably. I have updated the iDrac firmware to 1.98 (Build 08) and Lifecycle Controller Firmware to 1.6.0.73, when I go into LC Platform Update, select FTP, I get the available list and the only component which needs to be updated is the BIOS, everything else has successfully updated fine.  When I select BIOS update, it starts to download the file and then apply it but an error mismatch notification is displayed and server reboots back into LC. [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]  I have gone to downloads.dell.com site and downloaded previous BIOS updates ie R910010202C.exe, R910-020500C.exe and the latest R910-021000.exe, copied one of them onto a USB stick and tried to update the BIOS within LC Platform Update via USB - it reads the USB and then comes up with a Dell Non-Authorised message (which is what I was getting via the FTP update before updating iDrac & LC to a newer version). We are running ESXi 5.5U2 on the units and I'm at loss now on how I can bring the BIOS update to date. Any help/suggestions is much appreciated.
Dell PowerEdge R910 BIOS Upgrade from 1.1.7 to latest version...