Hello,   Can you confirm if the /forcetype switch was used when you tried running the update? This definitely sounds like it was an OEM branded R710, but that switch is the only thing that I'm aware of being able to force an update.
I have just got a second hand R710 (call it bad) that doesn't have it's BIOS version displayed by the "omreport system version" command. Another R710 (call it good) I have will have it's BIOS version displayed by the same command when run from the same boot disk (so it's a BIOS difference). The system bad also reports DMI errors when trying to update the PERC firmware and when I tried updating iDRAC, and other OM commands don't work. Even the iDRAC web pages on that machine won't say the BIOS version. When I tried applying a regular R710 BIOS update to machine bad it refused to apply. [URL] I read the above post. [URL] Then I tried the BIOS update from the above URL which also didn't apply with the error message "Unrecognised System". When I boot it the BIOS says "Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10", so it's not the regular T710 BIOS. How can I update this?
R710 BIOS update problem (Phoenix BIOS 1.10)