bally12345 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Hi guys I'm looking to update the stock bios on my N40L today but struggling to find a workable link for the bios to create the USB. Can someone help with a working link or even post a disk image I can just write to a USB? Need to add 5 drive to ODD and move Cache disk from ODD SATA to ESATA. Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 Finally managed to find a working link for SP64420.exe but not sure if that's stock bios or modded Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 Upgrade went well, just running pre clear on new HDD in ODD bay and swapped the cache drive to the ESATA port. Is there any settings that I need to look at in the BIOS to make sure I have full speed enabled on all ports? It is already set to 3gbps VGA to 32MB TIA Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Would you mind posting a link to that BIOS file in case it's helpful to someone else, please? Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 I searched site and found this post https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11585.msg326928#msg326928 before that I must have went through around 5 or 6 dead links Quote Link to comment
korith Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 You can take a look at this site as well http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/forum/67-microservers/ they got a whole area for hp microservers. There is a thread with the bios info in it. Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Im pretty sure I must not have set my bios settings correctly DC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4E1DNXP34 Zeroing. 48% @ 20 MB/s (37:43:41) Will have to wait for this drive to complete and then find some screenshots to make sure bios settings are right. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Will have to wait for this drive to complete and then find some screenshots to make sure bios settings are right. These are my settings, all my ports work at full speed: Chipset Menu > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled] OnChip IDE Type [iDE] SATA IDE Combined Mode [Disabled] SATA EPS on all PORT [Enabled] SATA Power on all PORT [Enabled] Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted June 30, 2016 Author Share Posted June 30, 2016 Will have to wait for this drive to complete and then find some screenshots to make sure bios settings are right. These are my settings, all my ports work at full speed: Chipset Menu > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled] OnChip IDE Type [iDE] SATA IDE Combined Mode [Disabled] SATA EPS on all PORT [Enabled] SATA Power on all PORT [Enabled] Thanks for the reply will be applying these settings tonight after work. Quote Link to comment
Hadriel Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I picked up a new to me N40L and I have not flashed it. Here is the speed of pre-clear write, and I was just wondering if you guys saw other performance gains? Quote Link to comment
nrgetik Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Anyone know if these will work on an N36L as well, or is it going to brick it? Quote Link to comment
nrgetik Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 The page linked is down so I had to find a version of the patched firmware elsewhere. I grabbed it from https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-HP-Proliant-Microserver-AMI-BIOS-MOD?pid=75965#pid75965 -- it seems to be operational, but I'm getting 60MBps writes and 260MBps reads on SATA channel 5 with a brand new ADATA SSD. Settings confirmed per Johnnie Black's post. Any ideas? Is it possible the patched versions for N40Ls and N54Ls are not compat with N36Ls? If that were the case, I'd expect a lot of other things to not be working properly... According to discussion here: http://www.nathanielperez.us/blog/hp-proliant-n40l-bios-modification-guide, it should also work on N36L. Wonder why my speeds are such garbage Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Make sure write cache in the bios is enabled. Quote Link to comment
nrgetik Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 The read speed stayed the same of course, and the write started out quite a bit faster but it seems to be settling in the 60-70MBps range, steadily decreasing from about twice that at the beginning of the write. I'll try hdparm after this is finished. Quote Link to comment
mr-hexen Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 The read speed stayed the same of course, and the write started out quite a bit faster but it seems to be settling in the 60-70MBps range, steadily decreasing from about twice that at the beginning of the write. I'll try hdparm after this is finished. How big is the file? This is normal speed for TLC ssd's after around 2GB. Quote Link to comment
nrgetik Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 How big is the file? This is normal speed for TLC ssd's after around 2GB. Ah, I'm probably good then, this was sustained write during preclear. For giggles, here's some other metrics: root@isak:/boot# hdparm -Tt /dev/sdf /dev/sdf: Timing cached reads: 2566 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1283.38 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 788 MB in 3.00 seconds = 262.24 MB/sec root@isak:/boot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=8k count=10k 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 0.460711 s, 182 MB/s Quote Link to comment
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