Press ESC on power up to get into the startup menu:
Startup MenuContinue Startup System Information Change Language Diagnostics (F2) Boot menu (F9) Computer Setup (F10) Network Boot (F12) Utilities
From this you can see that F10 on power up to get into the AMI BIOS screens. Alternatively F9 brings up a boot menu:
Please Select Boot Device>UEFI Boot Sources UEFI: 8GB SATA Flash Drive, Partition 1 Legacy Boot Sources Hard Drive Imation Nano Pro PMAP P0: 8GB SATA Flashdrive Network Controller (Realtek PXE B01 D00)↑ and ↓ to move selection
ENTER to select boot device
ESC to boot using defaults
In this example I had Staples branded USB flash drive plugged in. It's what has appeared as 'Imation Nano Pro PMAP'.
The AMI BIOS identified itself as the 'HP Setup Utility' at the top of the screen and at the bottom of the screen as version 2.18.1263 - which is not very helpful. Going to the File -> System Information screen it identified the System BIOS as M41 V01.02.
Checking on the HP site I found that the latest BIOS was M41 v00.01.07 Rev A dated Jun 12 2019.
Question for HP here: If the system reports the BIOS as vXX.XX why use a different format (vXX.XX.XX Rev X) on your support website?
For BIOS version(s) see the BIOS versions page.
The BIOS in my t530 was version M41 v01.02 09/22/2017. The HP website offered: 'HP Thin Client BIOS (M41 BIOS) 00.01.07 RevA dated Jun 12, 2019'. This was in the download sp97029.exe. I downloaded this and ran it to extract the updated BIOS and supporting updating software files. There was an accompanying how to file that started:
This SoftPaq contains utilities and data files that can be used to restore or upgrade ("flash") the system firmware (BIOS) on supported HP Thin-Clients. Several methods for flashing the BIOS on your thin client are available. This document describes the various ways to perform the update.
- Updating in Microsoft Windows.
- Updating in ThinPro.
- Updating in ToolLess mode.
- Updating from Computer Setup (F10).
- Updating by Silent Install.
- Recovering from a failed update (corrupted image).
- View supported models and revision history.
As thin clients on eBay are occasionally supplied either wiped clean or with no SSD I decided to explore the option: Updating from Computer Setup (F10). The guide for this said:
The HP Thin Clinet(sic) supported by this Softpaq provides a BIOS upgrade option through Computer setup (F10) using the "Flash System ROM" feature. Reboot the thin client and press F10 to enter Computer Setup. In the File menu, select the "Flash System ROM" item. This method requires that a Recovery USB flash drive be present which containing the BIOS binary image file and flash utility in the Hewlett-Packard folder. The Recovery USB flash drive image can be created by the M41_0107.exe in Windows environment. If a BIOS Setup password has been set, the password will be required before being able to access the "Flash System ROM" menu. The user is notified when the process is completed. The new BIOS code will not take effect until the thin client is restarted. The M41_0107.exe can be found in the Win folder.
So this is my journey....
The on-screen message is to:
Reverting to the earlier instructions...
Launch HpBiosUpdate Current CCG4 FW version 6.4 New CCG4 FW version 6.4 Update CCG4 FW Postone
Seems to be a simple and straight forward process.
In 2017 researchers discovered a vulnerability in the generation of RSA keys used by a software library adopted in cryptographic smartcards, security tokens and other secure hardware chips manufactured by Infineon Technologies AG. The t530 is affected by this.
If this is of concern to you full details can be found on the TPM page.