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Dell DCS 6105 Motherboard BIOS upgrade

How to update DCS 6105 BIOS to Dell Power Edge c6105 BIOS in order to support AMD Opteron 4300 series CPU. Download Dell PowerEdge c6105 BIOS version 2.2.0 which is the first version that support Opteron 4200 and 4300 series. Download  PEC6105BIOS020200.exe  floppy image and extract to your bootable DOS USB disk. You just need to use 6105v220.ROM image to flush  BIOS. You need to download AMI bios utility AFUDOS.exe version 4.4 and put into bootable USB disk. You can use rufus to make bootable usb. just select FreeDOS before you click Start. After booting to the USB, run the following command afudos  6105v220 .rom /P /B /N /C /E /K /X  Below image is before upgrade , version is S2G_3A21. Build Date: 06/03/11. After upgrade, the version become 2.2.0. You can see the process or Opteron 4164 EE. You have to use Opteron 4100 series CPU to upgrade the BIOS. After booting to windows, i was able to directly upgrade to 2.5.0 by running the fi...

Unable to launch IPMI with Java version 1.8.131

I have issue with launching IPMI after java JRE version update 1.8.131. "Error: unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system the following resource is signed with a weak signature algorithm MD5withRSA and is treated as unsigned" The resolution is you can comment out java.security under C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_131\lib\security #jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, MD5, RSA keySize < 1024 you will able to launch JNLP file without issue.