Appendix C: UEFI BIOS Recovery
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Appendix C
UEFI BIOS Recovery
Warning: Do not upgrade the BIOS unless your system has a BIOS-related issue. Flashing
the wrong BIOS can cause irreparable damage to the system. In no event shall Supermicro
be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising from a BIOS
update. If you need to update the BIOS, do not shut down or reset the system while the BIOS
is updating. Doing so may cause a boot failure.
C.1 Overview
The Unied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides a software-based interface
between the operating system and the platform rmware in the pre-boot environment.
The UEFI specication supports an architecture-independent mechanism for add-on card
initialization to allow the UEFI OS loader, which is stored in the add-on card, to boot the
system. The UEFI oers clean, hands-o control to a computer system at bootup.
C.2 Recovering the UEFI BIOS Image
A UEFI BIOS ash chip consists of a recovery BIOS block and a main BIOS block (a main
BIOS image). The boot block contains critical BIOS codes, including memory detection and
recovery codes for the user to ash a new BIOS image if the original main BIOS image
is corrupted. When the system power is on, the boot block codes execute rst. Once it is
completed, the main BIOS code will continue with system initialization and bootup.
C.3 Recovering the BIOS Block with a USB Device
If the BIOS le is corrupted and the system is not able to boot up, this feature will allow you
to recover the BIOS image using a USB-attached device. A USB ash drive or a USB CD/
DVD ROM drive may be used for this purpose. Please note that a USB hard disk drive is
NOT supported. Follow the procedures on the next page to recover the BIOS.
Using a dierent system, copy the standard BIOS binary image le into the root directory
of a USB ash drive with FAT16 or FAT32 format and rename the le to SUPER.ROM.
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