Dell PowerEdge R720 Server BIOS Update | How to Update the BIOS | EFI BIOS file | Boot Manager

Dell PowerEdge R720 - This will be the 7th video in our Dell PowerEdge R720 series. In this video, we will show you How To Update the BIOS. We will use a USB drive and an EFI file. If this video interest you, then we highly recommend watching the 9th video, which will show you how to perform Mass Updates, which runs multiple updates and once, including BIOS. This video series includes:
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7. BIOS - • Dell PowerEdge R720 Se...
8. iDRAC - • Dell PowerEdge R620 Se...
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10. How to set IP Address - • Dell PowerEdge R720 Se...
11. How to install VMware ESXI 6.5 - • Dell PowerEdge R720 VM...
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In this video, we will show you how to update your BIOS. This is a great solution if you don't have an Operating System installed on your server. This solution will require a USB Drive. We will download an EFI file from Dell.com onto the USB drive and then install the BIOS update onto your server through boot manager. This video will show the Step-by-Step Instructions on exactly how to do this. Click that like!
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[@Gojiraglix]

Spent 4 hours today trying to figure this out... should've checked youtube first. 20 Dell support articles and youtube always saves me. Thank you!!

[@cloudninjas]

Appreciate the positive feedback!

[@sabandija8959]

Thank you for the help! Just got my new to me R720 and I updated from 1.3.6 to 2.9.0

[@cloudninjas]

Nice!

[@bluebackgroundmedia]

haha, I just happened to get a poweredge R720 friday... The server was on 1.1.3. Was a nightmare trying to get the bios working on SUU and DSU... Honestly we should have started with a flash. worked like a charm.
Thanks!

[@cloudninjas]

Great machines!

[@manintoynenam]

No efi format what format should i use theres exe,bin,sign,pdf, EXE,BIN.

[@thetreyrich1]

at 4:26, why does it say Poweredge R620? I suppose identical bios files for multiple servers? That would have made me hesitant to proceed personally.

[@cloudninjas]

Yes same file

[@sylvainmartens7852]

Trying to update my R910 but there is no EFI files in the downloads.

[@maxmoors]

So, on dell's website I get an EXE file instead of an EFI file. How would I do it with the EXE file?

[@ianthomas1955]

I can choose between EXE, exe, and BIN and I am completely lost.

[@mujiyati4230]

how to configure VGA card on BIOS R720?

[@josephharr2827]

What if the USB drive isn't showing up in the list of devices? It's only showing all the NICs.

[@Teriyakii]

I am having this same issue. Tried different filesystems for the USB as well.

[@hickfarm]

I had to format my USB drive to FAT32 and it worked fine for me.

[@kusa1403]

Get a USB drive smaller then 32 GB. I had a 128 GB usb could not detect it. Do the same download process on the smaller USB drive and make sure its Fat 32 and not EXFAT or anything else

[@muhammadusmanzaib9578]

hi. when i try to update the bios. and go to bios update file explore . i cant see my usb disk. what is . ? but it is attached and linux boot.

[@waspenxgmail]

is it formatted to fat32?

[@lukebower1339]

@@waspenxgmail This was my issue. Forgot that anything over 32GB windows formats to exFat instead of FAT32. Once I formatted to FAT32 using GUI Format, it showed up and the update went smoothly.

[@mikegonzalez3299]

I cannot find the efi file on Dells website anymore.

[@sweatyb0t]

click the down arrow next to download then next to file name you should see a blue higlighted other formats next to a red triangle