MS Windows Home Server

I was wondering if anyone knew a way to edit the bios on an hp mediasmart server, through some software in windows or something like that. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

-drwebster93

No, because there is no video you can not watch the boot up process. Remote desktop won't because when the server restarts it will drop the connection. They do have a software utility to upgrade the BIOS firmware but it's a blind install since you won't know if it worked until the computer reboots. That and there is no firmware upgrade available AFAIK.

If I remember tomorrow I will check to see the board specs and see if there is at least a slot that if you really wanted to, you could rip the machine apart and install a card (although you won't be able to put it back together and leave the card in, you'll be lucky if you get the thing to fit together again properly, they are a bitch to rip apart and put back together for the first few times).

There honestly should be no need to access the BIOS on this machine, if you wanted something to overclock you should have built your own.

Your BIOS is what enables your computer to start up, if you edited the BIOS and did something wrong accidently, your motherboard would be disabled and could only be repaired by the OEM.


My Advice is don't do it, I'm a PC Technican and Network Administrator and I wouldn't touch the BIOS for any reason.